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What Part Of The Body Gets Infected By Schistosomiasis?
Schistosomiasis is infection with a type of Schistosoma parasite.
Alternative Names
Bilharzia; Katayama fever; Swimmer's itch; Blood fluke
Causes, incidence, and risk factors
You get a schistosoma infection through contact with contaminated water. The parasite in its infective stages is called a cercaria. It swims freely in open bodies of water.
On contact with humans, the parasite burrows into the skin, matures into another stage (schistosomula), then migrates to the lungs and liver,...
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