Sparganosis

Introduction: Sparganosis

Description of Sparganosis

Sparganosis (medical condition): Infection with a particular parastitic tapeworm larva (spargana). The tapeworm migrates to tissues under the skin where it forms nodules which are itchy, inflamed and painful. The conditions can be serious if the ...more

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Sparganosis: Infection with the plerocercoid or sparganum of a pseudophyllidean tapeworm, usually in a dermal sore resulting from application of infected flesh as a poultice; infection may also occur from ingestion of uncooked frog, snake, mammal, or bird intermediate or transport host bearing the spargana, but not from fish with Diphyllobothrium larvae, inasmuch as sparganosis is an infection with nonhuman pseudophyllidean tapeworms, usually species of Spirometra. Sparganosis may also develop from ingestion of water containing procercoid-infected Cyclops.
Source: Stedman's Medical Spellchecker, © 2006 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. All rights reserved.

Sparganosis: Infection of animals, including fish and man, with a developmental stage of Diphyllobothrium. This stage has recently been referred to as a plerocercoid but the name sparganum has persisted. Therefore, infection of fish or other animals with the plerocercoid larvae is sparganosis. Fish-eating mammals, including man, are the final hosts.
Source: MeSH 2007

Sparganosis as a Disease

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Sparganosis: Related Disease Topics

These medical disease topics may be related to Sparganosis:

• tapeworm infection
• praziquental
• cerebral sparganosis
• brain abscess
• elephantiasis
• orbital cellulitis
• epiphora
• ptosis
• ocular sparagnosis

Hierarchical classifications of Sparganosis

The following list attempts to classify Sparganosis into categories where each line is subset of the next.

MeSH 2007 Hierarchy:

• Parasitic Diseases
  • Helminthiasis
    • Cestode Infections
      • Diphyllobothriasis
        • Sparganosis

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