Clonorchis sinensis

Clonorchis sinensis is also known as Chinese liver fluke, is a human liver fluke. This parasite lives in the liver of humans, and is found mainly in the common bile duct and gall bladder, feeding on bile and causes inflammatory and proliferative alterations.

Characteristics
Shape and Size
10 to 25 mm long and 3-5 mm wide. Adult worms are cone shaped
Genome Information
Clonorchis sinensis isolate henan whole genome shotgun sequencing method, DNA linear, Size 536.8 Mb, GC%: 44, Protein 13,634, Gene 13,634. GenBank assembly accession: GCA_000236345.1 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/assembly/317798
Food Source
ingestion of raw, frozen, dried, salted, smoked or pickled fish, important fish species, mainly carp, are Cyprinus carpi, Pseudorasbora parva, Ctenopharyngodon idellus, Leucogobia guntheri, Carassius spp. and Hemilculter spp., or shrimp containing encysted metacercariae larvae.
Pathological Factor
Light infections (100 flukes) may be asymptomatic, but heavy infections can result in severe disease. Symptoms of light infections are generally mild such as fatigue, loss of appetite, nausea, diarrhea and the sensation of abdominal pressure or pain, hepatomegaly, fever, icterus, and occasionally urticaria.Heavy worm loads (> than 1000 flukes) observed in persistent/chronic infections may cause dizziness, tremors, convulsions, loss of weight and developmental abnormalities in children .
Disease
Clonorchiasis
Symptoms
Symptoms include fever, chills, epigastric pain, tender hepatomegaly, diarrhea, and mild jaundice.
Affected Body Organs
gall bladder ducts and inflammation of liver

Classification
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Platyhelminthes
Class Trematoda
Order Opisthorchiida
Family Opisthorchiidae
Genus Clonorchis
Species C. sinensis