The intestinal fluke. Definitive hosts are pigs and humans. Metacercariae encyst on aquatic plants such as water chestnuts in south east Asia.
n. a genus of large parasitic flukes widely distributed throughout eastern Asia and especially common in China. The adults of F. buski, the giant intestinal fluke, live in the human small intestine. Humans become infected with the fluke on eating uncooked water chestnuts contaminated with fluke larvae and the resulting symptoms can be serious (see fasciolopsiasis).... fasciolopsis
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