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Yes — parasites can and have been found in the human pancreas, but such occurrences are rare, geographically uneven, and medically distinct from viral/bacterial causes of pancreatic disease; documente...
The pancreatic fluke has a complex, terrestrial life cycle that requires two specific intermediate hosts—a land snail and an orthopteran insect—before reaching a mammalian definitive host, a design th...
Human pancreatic eurytremiasis is a rare, mostly incidental parasitic infection in people, with documented outcomes ranging from asymptomatic autopsy findings to obstructive jaundice and a mass-formin...
Yes — multiple species of (including worms and larval tapeworms) have been documented to infect or damage the human pancreas, sometimes directly occupying pancreatic ducts or causing pancreatitis and ...