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Descriptor English: Sparganosis
Descriptor Spanish: Esparganosis
Descriptor esparganosis
Entry term(s) esparginosis
Scope note: Infección de animales, incluidos los peces y los seres humanos, con una etapa de desarrollo de Diphyllobothrium. Esta etapa se ha referido recientemente como plerocercoide pero el nombre sparganum ha persistido. Por tanto, la infección de peces o de otros animales por las larvas plerocercoides es la esparganosis. Los huéspedes finales son los mamíferos que comen peces, incluido el ser humano.
Descriptor Portuguese: Esparganose
Descriptor French: Sparganose
Entry term(s): Sparganoses
Tree number(s): C01.610.335.190.304.780
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D013031
Scope note: Infection of animals, including fish and man, with a developmental stage of Diphyllobothrium. This stage has recently been referred to as a plerocercoid but the name sparganum has persisted. Therefore, infection of fish or other animals with the plerocercoid larvae is sparganosis. Fish-eating mammals, including man, are the final hosts.
Annotation: tapeworm infect; see note under SPARGANUM; infect at larval stage: DIPHYLLOBOTHRIASIS is infect by adult
Allowable Qualifiers: BL blood
CF cerebrospinal fluid
CI chemically induced
CL classification
CN congenital
CO complications
DG diagnostic imaging
DH diet therapy
DI diagnosis
DT drug therapy
EC economics
EH ethnology
EM embryology
EN enzymology
EP epidemiology
ET etiology
GE genetics
HI history
IM immunology
ME metabolism
MI microbiology
MO mortality
NU nursing
PA pathology
PC prevention & control
PP physiopathology
PS parasitology
PX psychology
RH rehabilitation
RT radiotherapy
SU surgery
TH therapy
TM transmission
UR urine
VE veterinary
VI virology
Related: Diphyllobothriasis MeSH
DeCS ID: 27836
Unique ID: D013031
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Date Established: 1966/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 1993/06/03
Sparganosis - Preferred
Concept UI M0020195
Scope note Infection of animals, including fish and man, with a developmental stage of Diphyllobothrium. This stage has recently been referred to as a plerocercoid but the name sparganum has persisted. Therefore, infection of fish or other animals with the plerocercoid larvae is sparganosis. Fish-eating mammals, including man, are the final hosts.
Preferred term Sparganosis
Entry term(s) Sparganoses



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