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.
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| "Cerebral sparganosis is an extremely rare intracranial parasitic infectious disease." | ( Chu, CC; Ho, YS; Kao, PF; Tzen, KY; You, DL, 1997) |
| "The term sparganosis is defined as an infection by the larva of parasitic tapeworms of Spirometra species." | ( Boonsawat, W; Indharapoka, B; Kularbkeaw, J; Phunmanee, A; Tuntisirin, C, 2001) |
| "Sparganosis is a parasitic infection that occurs principally in cats and dogs, but human infestations have been reported, albeit rarely." | ( Jeong, HJ, 2004) |
| "Sparganosis is caused by invasion of Spirometra plerocercoid into various tissues/organs." | ( Bae, YA; Lee, EG; Rahman, M, 2011) |
| "Sparganosis is a rare parasitic infection caused by the plerocercoid tapeworm larva of the genus Spirometra." | ( Ha, KY; Oh, IS, 2011) |
| "Sparganosis is a rare parasitic infection." | ( Ha, KY; Oh, IS, 2011) |
| "Sparganosis is caused by plerocercoid larva of Spirometra of which there are three main species; Spirometra mansoni (or Spirometra erinaceieuropaei), Spirometra mansonoides and Spirometra proliferum." | ( Appannanavar, S; Bhatti, HS; Khurana, S; Verma, S, 2012) |
| "Cerebral sparganosis is a severe parasitic infection caused by the larvae of Spirometra mansoni." | ( Hong, D; Wan, H; Wu, Y; Xie, H; Xu, R; Zhu, M, 2013) |
| "Human sparganosis is one of the neglected diseases but important food-borne parasitic zoonoses." | ( Boonyasiri, A; Cheunsuchon, P; Intapan, PM; Maleewong, W; Sanpool, O; Suputtamongkol, Y; Yamasaki, H, 2014) |
| "Sparganosis is a rare parasitic disease caused by migrating plerocercoid tapeworm larva of the genus Spirometra." | ( An, JY; Chang, YJ; Choe, KH; Eom, K; Kim, JT; Kim, MK; Lee, KM; Oh, Y; Park, JG, 2014) |
| "Sparganosis is an infection with a parasitic tapeworm larva that occurs by eating infected foods or drinking contaminated water." | ( Li, ZR; Zhang, HC; Zhang, HY; Zhao, YM, 2014) |
| "Sparganosis is a serious food-borne parasitic zoonosis caused by infection with Spirometra spargana." | ( Cui, J; Jiang, P; Liu, LN; Wang, ZQ; Wei, T; Zhang, X, 2015) |
| "Sparganosis is a parasitic infection caused by Spirometra spp." | ( Alonso, CD; Fleischmann-Rose, K; Nathavitharana, RR; Wertheimer, MD; Yassa, DS, 2015) |
| "Sparganosis is a neglected but important food-borne parasitic zoonosis." | ( Cui, J; Jiang, P; Liu, LN; Liu, RD; Qi, X; Wang, ZQ; Zhang, X; Zhang, ZF, 2015) |
| "Sparganosis is an infectious disease caused by the sparganum of Spirometra species, which seldom invades the respiratory system." | ( Feng, Y; Gao, BL; Li, M; Li, N; Li, QY; Xiang, Y, 2015) |
| "Sparganosis is one of the neglected but important food-borne parasitic zoonoses, with higher prevalence in Asian countries." | ( Ding, B; Feng, L; Hu, J; Sun, G; Xie, X, 2018) |
| "Sparganosis is a parasitic infection caused by the plerocercoid larvae of Spirometra mansoni in East and Southeast Asia." | ( An, N; Hong, D; Wan, H; Xie, H; Xu, C; Zhang, J, 2018) |
| "Cerebral sparganosis is the most serious complication of human sparganosis." | ( Ding, HY; Liu, XH; Lv, H; Wang, Z; Wang, ZC; Yang, ZH; Yin, HX; Yu, FX; Zhang, P; Zhang, TT; Zhao, PF; Zou, Y, 2019) |
| "Sparganosis is a parasitic infection caused by the metacestode stage of Spirometra mansoni and some other related diphyllobothriidean cestodes." | ( Cui, J; Deng, K; Feng, G; Qin, Y; Zhu, Y, 2019) |
| "Sparganosis is an infectious disease caused by a larval tapeworm of the genus Spirometra, which commonly invades subcutaneous tissues." | ( Fang, L; Gao, Q; Wang, Y; Yan, B; Zhou, J, 2020) |