Gastrodiscoides hominis
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Platyhelminthes |
| Class: | Trematoda |
| Subclass: | Digenea |
| Order: | Echinostomida |
| Family: | Paramphistomidae |
| Genus: | Gastrodiscoides |
| Species: | hominis |
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Gastrodiscoides hominis (Lewis and McConnell, 1876) Leiper, 1913 |
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Gastrodiscus hominis Fischoeder |
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Gastrodiscus hominis Fischoeder
Amphistomum hominis Lewis and McConnell
Gastrodiscoides hominis is a zoonotic helminth parasite belonging to a class of flatworms Trematoda. This is the only species in the genus Gastrodiscoides.It is primarily an intestinal fluke of pig, but also infect other vertebrates including human. In fact the first specimen was described from human subject in 1876, and constitute an important parasite of human in Bangladesh, India, Burma, China, Kazakhstan, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, and Volga Delta in Russia. In India, it is particularly rampant in Assam, Bengal, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa and Uttar Pradesh. Isolated cases are also reported from Africa, such as Nigeria.
Sometimes also known as colonic fluke, it infects the colon of pigs, rhesus monkey, orang-utan, fish, field rats and Napu mouse deer. But in case of humans the worms are attached on the wall of the caecum. Humans are considered an accidental host because the parasite can survive without humans. It causes a helminthic disease called gastrodiscoidiasis.
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