Pulmonary parasitic disease

Many parasites that are transmitted throughout the body through the bloodstream often stay in the lungs and cause lesions, which are parasitic diseases of the lungs. Including the parasites that the larvae need to pass through the lungs during development and the parasites that the adults use the lungs as a locus. Pulmonary pathogenic parasites include protozoa (Amoeba, Toxoplasma, and Pneumocystis carinii that are still controversial in taxonomy but most advocate protozoa), and worms (roundworms--taenia, hookworm, feces Nematodes, Trichinella spiralis, filamentous worms, winged nematodes; flat nematodes-pneumocystis, echinococcus, cysticercaria, trematodes, schistosomiasis), arthropod five-mouth fluke and mites. Pulmonary parasitic disease is either a direct invasion of the lungs (pleura) or an allergic reaction. The former can be a primary lung infection such as pneumocystis carinii pneumonia, or it can be secondary to the spread of lesions in adjacent organs such as pleural lung amoebiasis; the latter is manifested in various types (simple, persistent, Tropical) pulmonary eosinophil infiltration is mostly associated with worm migration.

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