Parasites: A Treatise on the Entozoa of Man and Animals / Including Some Account of the Ectozoa

by T. Spencer Cobbold

SECTION IV.—Part IV.—Crustacea (Gammaridæ).

Although multitudes of small Crustaceans are parasitic upon fishes, and some few of them adhere to oceanic mammals (Cetacea), I am sceptical as to the parasitism of Crustacea either in or upon man. Many of the Amphipodous Gammari lead a sort of free parasitic existence, and they are themselves very liable to harbor larval parasites. As regards human parasitism from this source the only records known to me are those quoted below.

Bibliography (No. 39).—Banon, “Freshwater Shrimp, or Gamarus pulex (said to have been passed per anum),” ‘Rep. of Path. Soc. of Dublin,’ in ‘Dub. Med. Press,’ April 6, p. 351, 1864.—Bartels, “Gamarus pulex in the Human Subject, with a postscript by Troschel,” trans. by Dr E. P. Wright, from ‘Verhandl. des Naturhist. verein. der Preuss. Rheinl. und Westph.,’ in ‘Dubl. Med. Press,’ 2nd ser., vol. ix, p. 407, 1864.—Wright, E. P., ‘Remarks on Dr Banon’s Case’ (see Bartels).