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Aberrant Nematode Infections

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Many nematodes whose definitive hosts are various animals other than humans can infect humans, but are icapable of maturing to adult parasites in human body and thus completing their life cycles. Two important human diseases, cutaneous larva migrans (CLM) and visceral larva migrans (VLM), are a result of such aberrant infections with larval nematodes. The pathogens causing CLM and VLM and the clinical manifestations of these diseases are listed in Tables 11.1 and 11.2. Although the number of nematodes causing aberrant human infections is large, this chapter emphasizes only important of these agent. Hence not all the organisms listed in Tables 11.1 and 11.2 are discussed in the text.

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  1. College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY, 10032, USA

    Dickson D. Despommier Ph.D. (Professor of Public Health (Parasitology) and Microbiology)

  2. Laboratory of Malaria Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA

    Robert W. Gwadz Ph.D. (Captain, US Public Health Service, Assistant Chief)

  3. Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, 06510, USA

    Peter J. Hotez M.D., Ph.D. (Assistant Professor of Pediatrics (Infectious Diseases), Epidemiology, and Public Health)

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Despommier, D.D., Gwadz, R.W., Hotez, P.J. (1995). Aberrant Nematode Infections. In: Parasitic Diseases. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2476-1_11

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