Lastly, they are a vector for the disease Asian lung fluke.
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""'Paragonimus westermani " "'is the major species of lung fluke that infects humans, causing paragonimiasis.
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"' Paragonimiasis "'is a food-borne parasitic infection caused by the P . westermani ", the oriental lung fluke.
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Freshwater fish, which can harbor lung flukes, tapeworms and pathogens from human waste, are next on the list.
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The crabs can carry a parasite called lung fluke, which can cause tuberculosis-type symptoms in people who eat them raw, authorities said.
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The most prominent species of Paragonimus in human medicine is " Paragonimus westermani ", an infectious lung fluke originating in eastern Asia.
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The eggs of the parasitic lung fluke " Paragonimus westermani " are actually destroyed by the stain, which can hinder diagnosis in patients who present with TB-like symptoms.
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In Vietnam, since paragonimiasis was first reported there in 1906, it was presumed for 89 years that only one species of " Paragonimus " lung fluke, " P . westermani ", caused paragonmiasis in humans.
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The light brown, burrowing crabs cause erosion to river banks and levees and damage fishing nets, eat native plants and animals, and host a parasite called the Oriental lung fluke, which causes a disease in people that resembles tuberculosis and influenza.
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