It is common in freshwater, brackish and marine habitats worldwide.
#SWIMMERS ITCH OCEAN SKIN#
Swimmer's itch, cercarial dermatitis or schistosome dermatitis is a short-term allergic immune reaction occurring in the skin of humans that have been infected by water-borne schistosomes, a type of flatworms. Cercarial dermatitis on lower legs, four days after spending a day in the shallows of a lake