| systemic infection with alaria americana (trematoda). | alaria americana is a trematode, the adult of which is found in mammalian carnivores. the first case of disseminated human infection by the mesocercarial stage of this worm occurred in a 24-year-old man. the infection possibly was acquired by the eating of inadequately cooked frogs, which are intermediate hosts of the worm. the diagnosis was made during life by lung biopsy and confirmed at autopsy. the mesocercariae were present in the stomach wall, lymph nodes, liver, myocardium, pancreas and s ... | 1976 | 1000445 |
| parasites of red foxes in new brunswick and nova scotia. | sixty-one red foxes from new brunswick and nova scotia were examined for helminths. alaria americana, a. arisaemoides, a. mustelae, cryptocotyle lingua, echinostoma revolution and metorchis conjunctus, capillaria aerophila, crenosoma vulpis, toxocara canis, uncinaria stenocephala and taenia crassiceps were found. approximately 67% of the foxes examined were clinically affected with sarcoptes scabiei mange. | 1978 | 691132 |
| fatal human infection with mesocercariae of the trematode alaria americana. | a fatal human infection with mesocercafiae of alaria americana is described. several thousand mesocercariae were estimated to be present in the peritoneal cavity, bronchial aspirate, brain, heart, kidney, liver, lungs, lymph nodes, pancreas, retroperitoneal adipose tissue, spinal cord, spleen, and stomach. nine days from the onset of symptoms death resulted from asphyxiation due to extensive pulmonary hemorrhage probably caused by immun-mediated mechanisms. circumstances suggest the victim proba ... | 1976 | 1008125 |