Massive pleural effusion due to paragonimiasis: Biochemical, cytological, and parasitological findings

• Main Authors: Takhellambam Shantikumar Singh (Author), Hiromu Sugiyama (Author), Chultin Lepcha (Author), Satish Kumar Khanna (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Paragonimiasis is an important food-borne parasitic zoonosis caused by trematode species of the genus, Paragonimus occurring in many parts of the world except in Australia and Antarctica. In India, it is an emerging parasitic disease, which is endemic in the northeast states where people have a comm...