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VoLuME 74 JANUARY-FEBRUARY 1956 NuMBER 1

RECENT ADVANCES IN DIAGNOSIS OF PARAGONIMIASIS*

CHUNG HUEI-LAN (463%,4%]), Hou TSUNG-CH’ANG (4428) AND Li T’IEN-HUANG (#3) Department of Medicine, The Central People’s Hospital, Peking

SHEH MING-P’ENG (44693) AND YANG CH’UNG-LI (#3272) Department of Pathology, Chinese Union Medical College, Peking

This paper deals briefly with the methods of diagnosing inapparent, obscure or atypical cases of paragonimiasis together with some illustrative cases in so far as they are of common interest to students of parasitology and tropical medicine. These methods are part of the fruitful results(1-8) of active investigation on paragonimiasis undertaken in recent years and reflect our growing interest in medical research. It is safe to say that research work in New China has definitely advanced our knowledge of paragonimiasis, its pathology, epidemiology, clinical manifestations, diagnosis, treatment and prevention. Readers interested in the various aspects of this disease will find valuable information in the numerous articles recently published in the Chinese Journal of Internal Medicine, the National Medical Journal of China and the Chinese Medical

*This article was originally written by the senior author at the invitation of the Editor of the Revista Brasileira de Malariologia e Doencas,Tropicais for a special number of that journal in homage to Dr. Samuel B. Pesséa on his retirement as Professor of Parasitology at the University of Sao Paolo. Much of the material was taken from a paper in Chinese written by the senior author and his associates for a symposium on paragonimiasis published in the National Medical Journal of China in December 1955. The paper now includes, in addition, the autopsy findings

of 2 cases by Professor C. H. Hu, whose invaluable help is here gratefully acknowledged .