page_title: Metagonimus yokogawai
section_title: Description
hierarchical_section_title: Metagonimus yokogawai / Description
caption_attribution_description: English: Metagonimus yokogawai - adult Čeština: Metagonimus yokogawai - dospělec
context_page_description: Metagonimus yokogawai is a species of a trematode, or fluke worm, in the family Heterophyidae.
  It is a human parasite causing metagonimiasis. It is among other disease that cause metagonimiasis.
context_section_description: Metagonimus yokogawai has adult flukes that parasitize the small intestine and causes inflammation. 
  This species was discovered by Fujiro Katsurada with egg samples from Japan and Taiwan  With this discovery, he was able to make a new genus of trematodes that this new parasite would fall under <"test" /> The size of these eggs are about 29 μm. Evidence also suggest that this parasite was present during the Yi dynasty.
caption: Adult Metagonimus yokogawai.
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