PARAGONIMIASIS

• Etiologic Agents


  • Paragonimus westermani
  • Paragonimus siamenses
• Lung Fluke


  The causative agent of paragonimiasis
• Mode of Transmission


  1. Ingestion of raw / uncooked crabs/crayfish

  2. Contamination of Food using meat/juice of infected animals
• Reservoir of Hosts


  • Cats
  • Dogs
  • Rats
  • Pigs
• Clinical Manifestations


  • Cough of long duration
  • Recurrent blood-streaked sputum
  • Chest/back pain
  • PTB-like signs/symptoms not responding to anti-TB medication
• Diagnostic Test


  • Sputum Microscopy
  • Immunology
• Cerebral Paragonimiasis


  A form of the disease affecting the brain
• Praziquantel (Billtrizide)


  The treatment for paragonimiasis
• Prevention and Control


  1. Treatment of infected person

  2. Anti-mollusk campaigns

  3. Educated of the population

  4. Avoid eating infected foods