| Metadata | |
|---|---|
| ID | DOID:10699 |
| Name | paragonimiasis |
| Definition | A parasitic helminthiasis infectious disease that involves parasitic infection by flukes of the genus Paragonimus. In the acute phase, the symptoms are diarrhea, abdominal pain, fever, cough, urticaria, hepatosplenomegaly, pulmonary abnormalities, and eosinophilia. Pulmonary manifestations include cough, expectoration of discolored sputum, hemoptysis, and chest radiographic abnormalities. Various organs like brain, spleen and liver can be infected. http://www.dpd.cdc.gov/dpdx/HTML/Paragonimiasis.htm |
| Xrefs |
SNOMEDCT_US_2023_03_01:30369007 |
| Subsets |
DO_infectious_disease_slim DO_rare_slim NCIthesaurus |
| Synonyms |
Infection by Paragonimus [EXACT] lung fluke disease [EXACT] lung fluke infection [EXACT] pulmonary paragonimiasis [EXACT] |
| Parent Relationships |
is_a brain disease is_a liver disease is_a splenic disease |
| Subclass Logical Relationships |
has symptom some urticaria has symptom some abdominal pain has symptom some hepatosplenomegaly has symptom some cough has symptom some fever has symptom some hemoptysis disease has location some brain and disease has location some spleen and disease has location some liver has symptom some diarrhea has material basis in some Paragonimus |