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Chapter 11 Parasitic Lung Diseases

BOOK TITLE: NCCP Textbook of Respiratory Medicine

Author
1. Behera D
ISBN
9789350252123
DOI
10.5005/jp/books/11207_11
Edition
1/e
Publishing Year
2011
Pages
23
Author Affiliations
1. LRS Institute of Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases, Sri Aurobindo Marg, Mehrauli, New Delhi, India, LRS Institute of Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases, Sri Aurobindo Marg, New Delhi, LRS Institute of Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases, New Delhi, India; Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, LRS Institute of TB and Respiratory Diseases, New Delhi, India, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh (India), Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India; LRS Institute of Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases Sri Aurobindo Marg New Delhi, India, Lala Ram Swaroop Institute of Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases, Sri Aurobindo Marg, New Delhi, India, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research Chandigarh, India, Postgraduate Institute of Medica
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Abstract

There are various parasites that affect lungs are metazoan, ancylostoma duodenale (hookworm), ancylostoma braziliense (cutaneous larva migrans), ascaris lumbricoides, filaria organisms, paragonimus species, schistosoma species, strongyloides stercoralis, toxocara canis, trichinella spiralis, entamoeba histolytica, pneumocystis jiroveci and toxoplasma gondii. Pneumocystis is an opportunistic fungal pathogen that causes an often-lethal pneumonia in immunocompromised hosts. Pulmonary involvement occurs in 3 to 28% of the cases of plasmodium falciparum malaria and represents the most serious complication of this infection with a lethality of about 70%. Trichinellosis is a parasitic infection caused by tissue-dwelling Trichinella roundworms and is associated traditionally with ingestion of pork from-infected domestic swine. Schistosoma infection is one of the most common infectious diseases limited in the past only to the endemic countries.

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