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Test Bank For Negotiation and Dispute Resolution Beverly Demarr Suzanne de Janasz
Test Bank For Negotiation and Dispute Resolution Beverly Demarr Suzanne de Janasz
The course of the disease may be divided into 3 stages: the 1st,
that of urticarial, pulmonary and febrile manifestations, which lasts
about a month; the 2d, where ova begin to show in the small mass
of bloody mucus which may cap the stool, and finally the 3d stage
with cirrhosis of the liver, ascites, cachexia and death.
In the 1st stage we have headache and an evening rise of temperature
to about 101°F. or 102°F. Shortly after the onset urticarial lesions,
which may be 2 or 3 inches in diameter, may appear and disappear on
various parts of the body.
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General Considerations
This is an infection with a trematode, Paragonimus westermanni
(P. ringeri) (Distoma pulmonale). It is rather common in some parts
of Japan and Formosa.
Arce has recently reported cases of
paragonomiasis in three Peruvians who had
been in contact with Japanese immigrants.
In 1880, Baelz found the ova in the
sputum of a case of haemoptysis in a
Japanese, as did also Manson in a
F . 112.—Paragonimus
westermanni: natural size; to left
Chinaman. Manson’s case subsequently died
showing ventral surface; to right and when autopsied showed in his lungs a
showing dorsal surface. (Braun after fluke which was responsible for the eggs
Katsuruda.) (From Tyson.)
seen by Manson. The fluke itself is a little
more than ⅓ of an inch (8 mm.) long and is
almost round on transverse section, there
being, however, some flattening of the ventral surface. The acetabulum
is conspicuous and opens just anterior to the middle of the ventral
surface.
The branched testicles are posterior to the laterally placed uterus and
the genital pore opens below the acetabulum. The branched ovary is
opposite the uterus on the other side.
It is rather flesh-like in appearance and is covered with scale-like
spines. The flukes are usually found in tunnels in the lungs, the walls
of which are thickened connective tissue. These tunnels result from
hypertrophy of the bronchioles. There may be also cysts formed from
the breaking down of adjacent tunnel walls. In addition to lung
infection with this fluke, brain, liver and intestinal infections may be
found.
The life history and mode of infection of man, further than the
miracidium stage, has been unknown until recently. If the eggs in
the sputum are shaken up with water and the water renewed from
time to time a ciliated embryo or miracidium develops after a few
weeks and, at this time if one presses on a cover-glass covering
some of these more mature ova, the miracidium will break through
the operculated extremity of the egg and swim about actively in the
surrounding water.
The course of the disease is very chronic, often lasting many years.
As a rule the patient is fairly well nourished although recurring attacks
of haemoptysis may bring on a rather marked anaemia. Jacksonian
epilepsy has been reported as occurring in paragonomiasis, the ova
being found in cysts of the brain. There is some question as to whether
some of the reports as to paragonomiasis may not have been connected
with infections with Japanese schistosomiasis.
The mode of infection as well as the life history is not known but
is probably connected with the eating of raw fish.
The symptoms are similar to those caused by C. endemicus.
The fluke has two-lobed testicles as against the dendritic one of
C. endemicus.
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N .—Rare trematodes of man are (1) Fasciola hepatica. Chiefly disease of sheep. Cercariae
from snail (Limnea) encyst on grass. (2) Dicrocoelium lanceatum. Chiefly disease of cattle. (3)
Heterophyes nocens. A very small intestinal fluke of man. (4) Metagonimus yokogawai. Another
very small intestinal fluke of man. Intermediate hosts: mollusc and gold fish. (5) Echinostoma
ilocanum. A rare intestinal fluke of the Philippines. (6) Two genera of Paramphistomidae—
Cladorchis and Gastrodiscus. Intestinal flukes.