Diphyllobothriasis

Diphyllobothriasis, or Bielschowsky's disease, but not the one that many of you thought about. More precisely, none of these two specifically, because these are two different diseases. But first things first.

Diphyllobortriosis is a parasitic disease of humans and animals with food and contact mechanisms of infection, caused by flatworms - the larvae of the cestode Diphyllobortrium latum. “The parasites are usually localized in the upper part of the small intestine and affect the circulatory system and sometimes the lymph nodes.”

The disease in humans is caused by coelomic parasitoses, a large group of nematode infections that occur with or without damage to organs, tissues and the body as a whole. Coelomic helminths belong to the nematodes of the roundworm group and are widespread throughout the world. In addition to humans, they infect pigs, domestic chickens, cows, camels, deer, horses,