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... > Eukaryota > Animals > Invertebrates > Helminths > Platyhelminths > Trematoda > Heterophyidae

Preferred term

Heterophyidae  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Heterophyes
  • Metagonimus
  • Metagonimus yokogawai

Note

  • a family of trematodes; infection: coord IM with TREMATODE INFECTIONS (IM); for antigens, coord with ANTIGENS, HELMINTH, for antibodies, coord with ANTIBODIES, HELMINTH

Scope note

  • A family of intestinal flukes of the class Trematoda which occurs in animals and man. Some of the genera are Heterophyes, Metagonimus, Cryptocotyle, Stellantchasmus, and Euryhelmis.

History note

  • 82; HETEROPHYES was see under TREMATODA 1963-81; METAGONIMUS was heading 1963-81

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D006578

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