[A rare zoonosis in Hungary: cercarial dermatitis caused by Schistosoma turkestanicum blood-fluke].
Several trematodes that parasitize vertebrate animals utilize swimming aquatic larvae to infect the host percutaneously. The most important ones among these parasites are the blood-flukes of birds and mammals comprising species that are also zoonotic. Within this latter group are species that cause the bilharziasis or schistosomiasis of inhabitants of the tropical countries, and other trematode species that are able to penetrate human skin, but do not develop to an adult form of the worm in the body. In temperate climates this latter type of infection occurs mainly in the form of an unpleasant inflammation of the skin and is often called "swimmer's itch". In most of these cases, the origin of the larvae remains unexplored, the source of the infection is neglected by the medical or veterinarian practitioners. Herein we report for the first time in Hungary that the cause of such dermatitis was the cercariae of Schistosoma turkestanicum, which infected red deer (Cervus elaphus) in this country. The local name of this pristine disease is "water mange" and it occurs only in one of the floodplains of the Danube. On the basis of informal communication this symptom seems to be rather regular among people who do fishing or have a bath in the habitat of the blood-fluke. In the case of adequate anamnesis it is worth examining the origin of the cercarial dermatitis which may give cross-reactions with human schistosomiasis during serological tests. Orv. Hetil., 2016, 157(40), 1579-1586.
Parazitológiai és Állattani Tanszék, Szent István Egyetem, Állatorvos-tudományi Kar Budapest, István u. 2., 1078.
Alexandra
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Juhász
Molekuláris Biológiai Laboratórium, NÉBIH Állat-egészségügyi Diagnosztikai Igazgatóság Budapest.
Ádám
Á
Dán
Immunológiai Laboratórium, NÉBIH Állat-egészségügyi Diagnosztikai Igazgatóság Budapest.
Béla
B
Dénes
Parazitológiai Osztály, Országos Epidemiológiai Központ Budapest.
István
I
Kucsera
Parazitológiai Osztály, Országos Epidemiológiai Központ Budapest.
József
J
Danka
Parazitológiai és Állattani Tanszék, Szent István Egyetem, Állatorvos-tudományi Kar Budapest, István u. 2., 1078.
Gábor
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Majoros
D000328:Adult; D000818:Animals; D018509:DNA, Helminth / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D003872:Dermatitis / Q000469:parasitology*; D006801:Humans; D006814:Hungary; D012547:Schistosoma / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D012552:Schistosomiasis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000469:parasitology; D012876:Skin Diseases, Parasitic / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000469:parasitology; D013550:Swimming
D018509:DNA, Helminth
Schistosoma turkestanicum; aquatic larvae; blood-flukes; cercaria dermatitis; cercarial dermatitis; vérmételyek; vízi rühösség; zoonosis