| high prevalence of liver and intestinal fluke infections among residents of savannakhet province in laos. | the prevalence of liver and intestinal fluke infections was surveyed on residents of savannakhet province, laos. fecal specimens were collected from a total of 981 residents in 4 mekong riverside villages and examined by the kato-katz thick smear technique. the results revealed that the overall helminth egg positive rate was 84.2%, and the positive rate for small trematode eggs, including opisthorchis viverrini, heterophyids, or lecithodendriids, was 67.1%. to obtain adult flukes, 38 small trema ... | 2007 | 17876167 |
| fishborne trematode metacercariae detected in freshwater fish from vientiane municipality and savannakhet province, lao pdr. | freshwater fish from vientiane municipality and savannakhet province, lao pdr were examined by the muscle compression and artificial digestion methods to know the infection status with trematode metacercariae. in the fish from savannakhet, 2 species of metacercariae, opisthorchis viverrini and haplorchis taichui, were detected. o. viverrini metacercariae were found in 6 species of fish, puntius brevis, hampala dispar, esomus metallicus, mystacoleucus marginatus, puntioplites falcifer, and cycloc ... | 2008 | 19127332 |