Echinococcus oligarthra
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| ( Diesing , 1863) |
Echinococcus oligarthra is a tapeworm from the genus Echinococcus , which is distributed in Central and South America . Natural final hosts are cats such as the pampas cat ( Leopardus colocolo ), small spotted cat ( Leopardus geoffroyi ), ocelot ( Leopardus pardalis ), jaguar ( Panthera onca ), jaguarundi ( Puma yagouaroundi ) and puma ( Puma concolor ). Rodents in particular serveas intermediate hosts for metacestodes .
The distribution area of E. oligarthra corresponds to that of E. vogeli . Both can be distinguished by the length and proportion of the hooks of the rostellum . Infection in humans can also occur very rarely, which, like the somewhat more common E. vogeli infestation , is referred to as polycystic echinococcosis . So far, only three cases of human E. oligarthra infection are known, two of which were associated with a settlement of the metacestode in the eyes and one with an affection of the heart .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Philip Craig, Zbigniew Pawłowski: Cestode Zoonoses: Echinococcosis and Cysticercosis: An Emergent and Global Problem (= NATO science series. Series I: Life and behavioral sciences. Volume 341). IOS Press, Amsterdam / Washington DC 2002, ISBN 978-1-58603-220-3 , p. 108.
- ^ Alan J. Magill, G. Thomas Strickland, James H. Maguire, Edward T Ryan, Tom Solomon: Hunter's Tropical Medicine and Emerging Infectious Disease. 9th edition, Elsevier Health Sciences, London 2012, ISBN 978-1-4557-4043-7 , p. 915.