Parasites World

-Eggs were found in Human coprolites in  Peru dating from 2277 BC and Brazil from about 1660 to 1420 BC
-Middle kingdom Egyptian mummy dating from 1938 to 1600 BC
-China in the Ming Dynasty between AD 1368 and 1644
-17th Century detailed anatomy by Edward Tyson (UK) and shortly afterward by Francesco Redi(Italy)

-It was seen for the first time by Bob in Romania ,inside cattle rbs in 1888

-First recognized by James McConnell in Human in 1857
-Snail host was recognized by Masatomo Muto in 1918
-Second intermediate host was recognized by Kobayashi

1852- Life cycle of Echinococcus granulosus was determined by Von Siebold

-It was first identified by Lewis in 1870

-It was reported by Gros in 1849

-Ibn Sina (Avicenna) wrote of it as Balkh Sore

1925-It was first described from the Intestine of Mice by Hoeppli (Ref. : Etges, F.J. ,Marinakis ,V., 1991)

It was found in Dogs by Goeze in 1782 (Ref. :  Eom, K.S. et al , 1992)

-It was first identified in Dogs (Dubey et al. , 1988)

-First record in Human by Konstantin Wingradoff in 1892
-Snail and fish hosts and their roles  in the life cycle were discovered by Hans Vogel in 1934

1851- Adult worms were found in the vesical veins bu Bilharz in Cairo

1904- Adult was found Katsurada

-In 1902 Manson reported a patient with schistosomiasis acquired in the Western hemisphere;the eggs were in the stool,not in the urine,and had lateral spines

1876- Adults were found in Lymph glands by Bancroft ,surprisingly in Australia