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. 2022 May 20;149(10):1262–1285. doi: 10.1017/S0031182022000725

Table 6.

Other intestinal fluke species infecting humans with their life cycle and geographical distribution

Species of intestinal fluke First intermediate host (snail) Second intermediate host Reservoir host Geographical distributiona
Brachylaima cribbi Land snail (Theba pisana) Land snail (Cernuella virgata) Bird, reptile, mammal Australia
Caprimorgorchis molenkampi Bithynia sp. Naiad of dragonfly Rat, bat Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Thailand
Fasciolopsis buski Segmentina sp. Hippeutis sp.
Gyraulus sp.
Aquatic plant (water chestnut, water bamboo, water caltrop, water hyacinth, root of lotus) Dog, pig, rabbit Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, The Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam
Gastrodiscoides hominis Helicorbis coenosus Aquatic plant, tadpole, frog, crayfish Pig, mouse deer, rat, monkey Cambodia, China, England, India, Indonesia, Japan, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nigeria, Pakistan, The Philippines, Russia, Thailand, USA, Vietnam, Zambia
Gymnophalloides seoi Unknown Oyster (Crassostrea gigas) Palearctic oystercatcher, cat South Korea
Microphallus brevicaeca Unknown Brackish water crab (Carcinus maenas), shrimp (Macrobrachium sp.) Bird, monkey, mammal Papua New Guinea, The Philippines
Nanophyetus salmincola Oxytrema silicula Salmonid fish
non-salmonid fish
Dog, cat, raccoon, fox, bird Canada, USA
Nanophyetus schikhobalowi Semisulcospira sp. Salmonid fish
non-salmonid fish
Rat, fox Russia
Neodiplostomum seoulense Hippeutis cantori
Segmentina hemisphaerula
Tadpole, frog, snake (paratenic host) Rat, mouse South Korea, China
Phaneropsolus bonnei Bithynia sp. (?) Naiad of dragonfly Monkey Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Thailand
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The geographical distributions of these intestinal flukes are referred from Chai (2019) and Chai and Jung (2019).