Recent incidental background findings of Alaria alata mesocercariae ["Distomum muscularis suis," Duncker, 1896] in meat of wild boars during official Trichinella inspection initiated a re-assessment o...
Natural infections of Alaria marcianae mesocercariae were detected in five amphibian, seven reptilian, and two mammalian species in Louisiana. Alligators were susceptible to experimental infections wi...
Alaria americana is a trematode, the adult of which is found in mammalian carnivores. The first case of disseminated human infection by the mesocercarial stage of this worm occurred in a 24-year-old m...
A Canadian woman presented with a motile, intra-retinal worm, which by appearance and movement was strikingly similar to the mesocercaria of Alaria sp., a trematode from frogs. Using these mesocercari...
We encountered two cases of human intraocular infection with mesocercariae of Alaria (Trematoda), involving unrelated Asian men who had unilateral decreased vision. Both patients had pigmentary tracks...
Mesocercariae of Alaria marcianae were removed from snake paratenic hosts and fed to domestic cats. The cats were necropsied at specified intervals, the parasites recovered, and studied by SEM. During...