Pulmonary paragonimiasis with expectoration of worms: a case report
Vanijanonta, S.; Radomyos, P.; Bunnag, D.; Harinasuta, T.
Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health 12(1): 104-106
1981
ISSN/ISBN: 0125-1562 PMID: 7256348 Document Number: 172655
A 40-yr-old Thai farmer with pulmonary paragonimiasis was treated with praziquantel, 25 mg/kg body wt, 3 times after meals for 1 day. On follow-up treatment during hospitalization he coughed up 7 adult lung flukes. The worms were identified as Paragonimus heterotremus. This is probably the 1st case report to demonstrate adult mature Paragonimus coughed up from man.