| prevalence and risks for fishborne zoonotic trematode infections in domestic animals in a highly endemic area of north vietnam. | fishborne zoonotic trematodes (fzt) are endemic in humans and cultured fish in vietnam but little is known about fzt in domestic animals. a study was designed to determine fzt prevalence and species diversity, and risk factors for infection, in dogs, cats and pigs. faecal samples from 186 dogs, 94 cats and 168 pigs belonging to 132 households in nghia hung district, nam dinh province, were examined for small trematode eggs; those were trematode eggs with length less than 50 microm. prevalence of ... | 2009 | 19660428 |
| poultry as reservoir hosts for fishborne zoonotic trematodes in vietnamese fish farms. | fishborne zoonotic trematodes (fzt) are widespread in vietnam and southeast asia. it is now recognized that the risk of being infected from eating raw fish dishes applies not only to humans, but also to domestic animals (e.g., cats, dogs, and pigs) and fish-eating birds. the role of ducks and chicken, commonly raised on fish farms, as reservoir hosts, however, has not been adequately investigated. to study this question, chickens and ducks from integrated poultry-fish farms in nghia lac and nghi ... | 2010 | 20149548 |