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Human infection with the pancreatic fluke Eurytrema pancreaticum, including symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment.
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...
Eurytrema pancreaticum is a pancreatic fluke primarily of ruminants that only occasionally infects humans, and control strategies differ for livestock and the rare human case; veterinary anthelmintics...
Human infection with the pancreatic fluke Eurytrema pancreaticum is documented but extremely rare in the medical literature; most credible reports are isolated case reports or veterinary-focused revie...
Routine stool (coproparasitological) tests can and do miss Eurytrema infections because standard fecal methods have low sensitivity for detecting the low egg output of pancreatic flukes, but modified ...