sparganum การใช้

• Diesing first named the Sparganum genus of cestodes in 1854.
• Diagnosis is typically not made until the sparganum larva has been surgically removed.
• In general, infestation by one or a few sparganum larvae is often best treated by surgical removal.
• Praziquantel is the drug of choice, although its efficacy is unknown and surgical removal of the sparganum is generally the best treatment.
• Patrick Manson first reported sparganosis and the species " Sparganum mansoni " in China in 1882, while making the post-mortem examination of a man in Amoy, China.
• Clinical symptoms also vary according to the location of the sparganum; possible symptoms include elephantiasis from location in the lymph channels, peritonitis from location in the intestinal perforation, and brain abscesses from location in the brain.
• Following ingestion of the copepod by a suitable second intermediate host, typically a minnow or other small freshwater fish, the procercoid larvae are released from the crustacean and migrate into the fish's flesh where they develop into a plerocercoid larvae ( sparganum ).
• Some members of the Eucestoda ( such as Echinococcus, Sparganum, " Taenia multiceps sp . ", and " Mesocestoides sp . " ) can reproduce asexually through budding, which initiates a metagenesis of alternating sexually and asexually reproducing generations.
• In their retrospective study of 25 cases of cerebral sparganosis, Song et al . found that 12 patients ( 48 % ) had eaten raw or uncooked frog or snake that was infected with sparganum, 5 patients ( 20 % ) had applied an animal's flesh as a poultice to an open wound, 4 patients had drunk contaminated water, and the cause of infection was not known for 4 patients.