Korean J Parasitol.
1994 Sep;32(3):157-161. 10.3347/kjp.1994.32.3.157.
The first discovery of an endemic focus of Heterophyes nocens (Heterophyidae) infection in Korea
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- 1Department of Parasitology, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Korea.
- KMID: 1715436
- DOI: http://doi.org/10.3347/kjp.1994.32.3.157
Abstract
- A highly endemic focus of human infection with Heterophyes nocens (Heterophyidae) was discovered from a small coastal village of Shinan-gun, Chollanam-do, for the first time in Korea. Fecal examinations by cellophane thick smear and formalin-ether sedimentation techniques revealed 42.9% heterophyid egg positive rate out of 98 inhabitants examined. It was difficult to confirm the species of heterophyids only by eggs. In order to collect the adult flukes, the egg positive cases were treated with 10 mg/kg single dose of praziquantel and purged with magnesium sulfate, and the adult worms were collected from the diarrheic stools. From each of 18 cooperative patients 1 to 1,124 (total 4,730) H. nocens worms were recovered, together with a few to large numbers of heterophyids (Pygidiopsis summa, Stictodora fuscatum) and/or gymnophallids (Gymnophalloides seoi). It is speculated that H. nocens might be widely distributed along the southwestern coastal areas where the brackish water fish such as the mullets or gobies are popularly eaten raw.
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