Armillifer armillatus
| Armillifer armillatus | |
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| A 4 cm specimen from the Python sebae
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Ichthyostraca |
| Order: | Porocephalida |
| Family: | Porocephalidae |
| Genus: | Armillifer |
| Species: | A. armillatus
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| Binomial name | |
| Armillifer armillatus (Wyman, 1848)
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Armillifer armillatus is a species of
porocephalosis. Humans have been infected by eating undercooked snake meat or through direct contact. Most human infections are asymptomatic, some are debilitating, or rarely even lethal.[3][4] Diagnoses of infection has usually been done by accident, and almost all patients did not require treatment. [5]
Most of the pythons sold for human consumption at the rural bushmeat markets in the Democratic Republic of Congo host Armillifer armillatus.[6]
References
- PMID 20386597.
- ^ Christoffersen ML, De Assis JE (2013). "A systematic monograph of the Recent Pentastomida, with a compilation of their host". Zoologische Mededelingen. 87: 1–206. Archived from the original on 8 November 2014. Retrieved 17 January 2018.
- PMID 933188.
- PMID 19238218.
- PMID 27004769.
- PMID 29030787.
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