If you're headed to a freshwater stream this summer and a friend dares you to eat a raw crayfish -- don't do it. You could end up in the hospital with a severe parasitic infection. If you're headed to ...

Six residents of Missouri and Illinois came down with a rare parasitic disease — paragonimiasis – caused by Paragonimus trematodes, or lung flukes, between September 2009 and September 2010, according ...

An asymptomatic 17-year-old boy who had emigrated from El Salvador was found to have a pleural effusion on a chest radiograph. A small number of parasite eggs were seen in the pleural fluid.

Extracts prepared from adult worms of Paragonimus kellicotti contain a minimum of five soluble precipitating antigens. The possibility of two or more metabolic antigens is also discussed. Sera from ...

GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 20 December) — Freshwater crabs in Mindanao have been found to carry DNA of the lung-fluke parasite Paragonimus westermani, which can cause illness if crabs are eaten ...