Oesophagostomiasis is an infectious disease normally caused by Oesophagostomum bifurcum. Oesophagostomum bifurcum is highly and focally endemic in northern Ghana and Togo. Oesophagostomum species in man were first found in 1905 in southern Ethiopia.
Category
Parasitic infectious disease
Brite
Human diseases in ICD-11 classification [BR:br08403]
01 Certain infectious or parasitic diseases
Parasitic diseases
Helminthiases
Diseases due to nematodes
1F69 Oesophagostomiasis
H02405 Oesophagostomiasis
Genome-based classification of infectious diseases [BR:br08401]
Parasitic infections (animals)
Infections caused by nematodes
H02405 Oesophagostomiasis
Pathogen
Oesophagostomum bifurcum
Comment
Oesophagostomum species involved in human infections have been referred to as O. bifurcum, O. stephanostomum and possibly as O. aculeatum.
