Institute for Clinical and Experimental Pathology, ARUP Laboratories, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
Department of Pathology, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
J Clin Microbiol. 2021 Oct 19;59(11):e0269120. doi: 10.1128/JCM.02691-20. Epub 2021 Jun 2.
Acanthocephala is a phylum of parasitic pseudocoelomates that infect a wide range of vertebrate and invertebrate hosts and can cause zoonotic infections in humans. The zoologic literature is quite rich and diverse; however, the human-centric literature is sparse, with sporadic reports over the past 70 years. Causal agents of acanthocephaliasis in humans are reviewed as well as their biology and life cycle. This review provides the first consolidated and summarized report of human cases of acanthocephaliasis based on English language publications, including epidemiology, clinical presentation, treatment, and diagnosis and identification.
棘头虫门是一类寄生假体腔动物，感染范围广泛，包括多种脊椎动物和无脊椎动物宿主，并可能导致人类的人畜共患病感染。动物学文献相当丰富多样；然而，以人类为中心的文献却很少，过去 70 年来仅有零星报道。本文回顾了人类棘头虫病的病原体及其生物学和生命周期。本综述基于英文文献，首次对人类棘头虫病病例进行了综合和总结报告，包括流行病学、临床表现、治疗以及诊断和鉴定。
