| Group
|
Species
|
Common Name
|
Exposure
|
Treatment
|
| Platyhelminths: trematodes (flukes)
|
| lung flukes
|
Paragonimus species
|
lung fluke
|
seafood, especially crayfish or crab in Southeast Asia
|
praziquantel
|
| liver flukes
|
Fasciola hepatica
|
common or sheep liver fluke
|
underwater vegetation, especially watercress, near sheep-rearing in South America, Europe, and Middle East
|
triclabendazole
|
| Opisthorchis viverrini
|
Southeast Asian liver fluke
|
freshwater fish in Southeast Asia
|
praziquantel or albendazole
|
| Clonorchis sinensis
|
Chinese liver fluke
|
fish in Southeast Asia and eastern Russia
|
praziquantel or albendazole
|
| Metorchis conjunctus
|
Canadian liver fluke
|
|
praziquantel
|
| Dicrocoelium dendriticum
|
lancet liver fluke
|
|
|
| intestinal flukes
|
Echinostoma revolutum
|
|
snails and fish in Middle and Far East
|
|
| Fasciolopsis buskii
|
|
water vegetables, especially watercress, bamboo, and water chestnuts in China, India, Thailand, and Bangladesh; pig reservoir
|
praziquantel
|
| Metagonimus species
|
|
fish in Middle and Far East
|
praziquantel
|
| Heterophyes heterophyes
|
|
eating undercooked fresh/brackish water fish in Egypt and Middle and Far East
|
praziquantel
|
| blood flukes
|
Schistosoma haematobium
|
blood fluke
|
freshwater in Africa and the Middle East
|
praziquantel
|
| Schistosoma mansoni
|
blood fluke
|
freshwater in Africa, the Middle East, and South America
|
praziquantel
|
| Platyhelminths: cestodes (tapeworms)
|
| pseudophyllideans
|
Diphyllobothrium latum
|
|
|
praziquantel
|
| Spirometra species
|
|
|
|
| Sparganum species
|
|
|
|
| intestinal cyclophyllideans
|
Taenia solium
|
pork tapeworm
|
eating undercooked pork
|
|
| Taenia saginata
|
beef tapeworm
|
eating undercooked beef
|
|
| Hymenolepis nana
|
dwarf tapeworm
|
|
praziquantel
|
| Hymenolepis diminuta
|
|
|
|
| Dipylidium caninum
|
|
|
|
| tissue cyclophyllideans
|
Echinococcus granulosus
|
hydatid worm
|
|
albendazole
|
| Echinococcus multilocularis
|
alveolar hydatid disease
|
|
albendazole
|
| Taenia solium
|
cysticercosis
|
eating soil contaminated with pig or human feces
|
albendazole or praziquantel
|
| Taenia multiceps
|
|
|
|
| Taenia serialis
|
|
|
|
| Nematodes (roundworms)
|
| filarial roundworms
|
Onchocerca volvulus
|
river blindness
|
|
ivermectin
|
| Loa loa
|
eye worm
|
|
diethylcarbamazine
|
| Wuchereria bancrofti
|
lymphatic filariasis
|
|
diethylcarbamazine
|
| Brugia malayi
|
lymphatic filariasis
|
|
diethylcarbamazine
|
| Brugia timori
|
lymphatic filariasis
|
|
diethylcarbamazine
|
| Mansonella perstans
|
|
|
maybe doxycycline
|
| Mansonella streptocerca
|
|
|
maybe doxycycline
|
| Mansonella ozzardi
|
|
|
maybe doxycycline
|
| intestinal roundworms
|
Ascaris lumbricoides
|
great roundworm
|
|
albendazole or mebendazole or ivermectin
|
| Necator americanus
|
New World hookworm
|
|
albendazole or mebendazole or pyrantel pamoate
|
| Ancylostoma duodenale
|
Old World hookworm
|
|
albendazole or mebendazole or pyrantel pamoate
|
| Strongyloides stercoralis
|
threadworm
|
immunosuppression in a person who has ever spent time on a tropical beach
|
ivermectin ± albendazole
|
| Trichuris trichiura
|
whipworm
|
|
albendazole
|
| Enterobius vermicularis
|
pinworm
|
|
albendazole or mebendazole or pyrantel pamoate
|
| Capillaria species
|
|
|
mebendazole
|
| Trichostrongylus species
|
|
|
pyrantel pamoate
|
| Anisakis species
|
anisakidosis
|
|
endoscopic removal
|
| Gongylonema species
|
gullet worm
|
ingestion of food or water contaminated by sheep or pig feves
|
surgical removal or albendazole
|
| tissue-invasive roundworms
|
Trichinella spiralis
|
pork worm
|
eating undercooked pig, boar, or bear meat
|
albendazole plus steroids
|
| Anyclostoma braziliense
|
cutaneous larva migrans
|
|
albendazole or ivermectin
|
| Ancylostoma caninum
|
eosinophilic enterocolitis
|
|
albendazole or mebendazole or endoscopic removal
|
| Dracunculus medinensis
|
Guinea worm
|
|
none
|
| Toxocara canis
|
visceral larva migrans
|
|
albendazole or mebendazole
|
| Toxocara cati
|
visceral larva migrans
|
|
albendazole or mebendazole
|
| Angiostrongylus cantonensis
|
rat lungworm
|
|
controversial
|
| Gnathostoma species
|
|
|
albendazole or ivermectin ± surgical removal
|
| Baylisascaris procyonis
|
raccoon roundworm
|
|
albendazole + steroids
|
| Dioctophyme renale
|
giant kidney worm
|
|
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