Mode of Organ affected Characteristic signs Animal host

Transmission
Schistosoma S. mansoni is intestine and The most common Intermediate
mansoni transmitted through liver manifestations hosts are snails of
water are fever, chills, the genera
weakness, Biomphalaria, (S.
headache, anorexia, mansoni),
nausea, vomiting, Oncomelania
and general malaise.
Severe watery
diarrhea, sometimes
bloody stools,
nonproductive
cough, and rapid
weight loss may
develop.
S. Free-swimming liver and fever, cough, 40 species of
Japonicum infectious parasites spleen abdominal pain, domestic and
emerge from the diarrhea, wild animals,
snails and which hepatosplenomegaly including bovines,
burrow into the skin and eosinophilia. pigs, sheep and
of people and other dogs
mammals (most
schistosome species
infect only people)
when they swim in
infected water
Clonorchis eating infected raw liver In the acute freshwater snails
Sinensis or undercooked fish phase, abdominal (the first
containing the pain, nausea, intermediate
larvae diarrhea, and hosts),
eosinophilia can freshwater fish
occur. and occasionally
shrimps (the
second
intermediate
hosts), and
human or
carnivorous
mammals (the
definitive hosts)
Fasciolopsis Fasciolopsis is not blood vessels, owever, abdominal This parasite
buski transmitted directly gastrointestinal pain and reaches
from human to tract, lungs, diarrhea can occur 1 adulthood
human. Humans liver or 2 months after and produces
(and pigs) pass eggs infection. With eggs in mammal
in their feces, which heavy infections hosts, usually
develop in water Fasciolopsis flukes humans and pigs,
and infect snails as can cause intestinal but also equines,
intermediate hosts. obstruction, bovines, caprines,
After further abdominal pain, and ovines.
development, the nausea, vomiting,
parasites leave the and fever.
snail intermediate
host and encyst on
water plants.