Chapter 3,
Paragonimiasis. In: Murrell, K.D., Fried, B.
In 'Clonorchiasis or
paragonimiasis', authors advanced that patients may be infected by
paragonimiasis.
Paragonimiasis.
Paragonimiasis is an infection caused by lung flukes of the genus Paragonimus.
The importance of wildlife as reservoirs of human diseases has also been widely recognized for most of the parasitic zoonoses, including American and African trypanosomiasis, leishmaniasis, giardiasis, cryptosporidiosis, balantidiasis, fascioliasis, opisthorchiasis, clonorchiasis,
paragonimiasis, schistosomiasis, echinococcosis, taeniasis, diphyllobothriasis, sparganosis, dipylidiasis, trichinellosis, toxocariasis, strongyloidiasis, and Ancylostoma caninum and A.
Hence, a full dietary history is crucial to identify possible exposure risks, as it would also be for anisakiasis ('sushi worms') and gnathostomiasis from raw fish,
paragonimiasis from freshwater crabs and crayfish, and trichinosis following ingestion of raw or undercooked pork or more exotic meats such as wild boar, horse, bear or seal, depending on geographic location.
Examples include apical tuberculous fibronodular changes, symmetric bilateral ground glass opacities in pneumocystis jiroveci pneumonia, cavitary filling defects of aspergillomas, hepatic and pulmonary hydatid cysts, and pleuroparenchymal changes in
paragonimiasis, all of which may calcify, rarely in some cases.
In North America,
paragonimiasis is caused by Paragonimus kellicotti flukes (4).
Paragonimiasis is a parasitic infection of the lungs caused by zoonotic lung flukes of the genus Paragonimus.