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High prevalence of Schistosoma mansoni and other intestinal parasites among elementary school children in Southwest Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study. Eggs may also enter the mesenteric lymphatics and travel to the heart, causing myocarditis, chronic congestive heart failure, and death. 1:e207. [Full Text]. The infection possibly was acquired by the eating of inadequately cooked frogs, which are intermediate hosts of the worm. MedGenMed. J Trop Med Hyg. Eckert J. Workshop summary: food safety: meat- and fish-borne zoonoses. [Full Text]. canis) is a three-host trematode that lives as adults in the intestine of the dog definitive host. [Medline]. Systemic infection with Alaria americana (Trematoda). Freely moving Alaria mesocercaria on the retina of the human eye (arrow). Fernandes BJ, Cooper JD, Cullen JB, Freeman RS, Ritchie AC, Scott AA. In the second intermediate hosts, the cercariae are transformed into metacercariae, which infect humans upon ingestion of raw or undercooked fish. 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