CHINESE JOURNAL OF PARASITOLOGY AND PARASITIC DISEASES ›› 2024, Vol. 42 ›› Issue (6): 776-782.doi: 10.12140/j.issn.1000-7423.2024.06.013

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Research progress on diagnostic techniques for sparganosis mansoni

GUO Jiatian(), LIN Lin, LU Yan*()   

  1. National Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention; Chinese Center for Tropical Diseases Research; National Key Laboratory of Intelligent Tracking and Forecasting for Infectious Diseases; Key Laboratory on Parasite and Vector Biology, Ministry of Health; WHO Collaborating Centre for Tropical Diseases; National Center for International Research on Tropical Diseases, Ministry of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200025, China
  • Received:2024-06-12 Revised:2024-07-29 Online:2024-12-30 Published:2025-01-14
  • Contact: E-mail: luyan@nipd.chinacdc.cn.
  • Supported by:
    Key Discipline Project of Three-Year Initiative Plan for Strengthening Public Health System Construction in Shanghai (2023-2025)(GWVI-11.1-12);National Parasite Resource Bank(NPRC-2019-194-30)

Abstract:

Sparganosis mansoni is a zoonotic parasitic disease caused by infection with plerocercoid, the larval stage of Sparganum mansoni, which is prevalent globally and poses a great threat to human health. S. mansoni plerocercoid may migrate in the human body, and misdiagnosis and missed diagnosis of sparganosis mansoni are common because of variable sites of parasitization, diverse clinical symptoms and lack of specific manifestations. Precision diagnosis of sparganosis is therefore of great importance. Currently, a variety of assays have been used for the diagnosis of human sparganosis mansoni. This review summarizes the advances in the pathogenic, imaging, immunological and molecular biological techniques for diagnosis of sparganosis mansoni, so as to provide insights into further studies on the diagnostic techniques of sparganosis mansoni.

Key words: Sparganosis mansoni, Diagnosis, Research progress

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