acanthocephaliasis

Infection of a definitive host is called acanthocephaliasis.

Calandruccio provided the first description of the clinical manifestations of acanthocephaliasis and similar accounts are found in the case studies since.

There are not many case studies on acanthocephaliasis but of the ones that exist, many of the patients described were asymptomatic.

Infection is known as acanthocephaliasis.

In rodents, acanthocephaliasis is fatal and manifests itself through similar hemorrhaging and gastrointestinal disturbance.

The proper diagnosis of acanthocephaliasis in humans is made through fecal analysis, which if the host is infected should contain adult worms or eggs.

While acanthocephalans rarely infect humans, there have been several cases reported of M. moniliformis causing acanthocephaliasis in humans as their definitive hosts.