| an epidemiological study on opisthorchis viverrini infection in lao villages. | the prevalence of liver fluke, opisthorchis viverrini, infection in rural and urban communities was studied in khammouane province in lao pdr. the infection was the commonest among the villagers examined, showing the positive rates of 52.9% and 55.0% in two rural communities and 60.7% in an urban community, respectively. the infection rate reached up to 20% or more within 4 years after birth and increased with age to a plateau in the age group over 20 years. the highest prevalence rate was over ... | 2000 | 11023079 |
| molecular evidence of opisthorchis viverrini in infected bithyniid snails in the lao people's democratic republic by specific hybridization probe-based real-time fluorescence resonance energy transfer pcr method. | naturally occurring bithyniid snails, bithynia siamensis goniomphalos (prosobranchia: bithyniidae), and their intermediate hosts were sampled from khammouane province, the lao people's democratic republic, and the prevalence of the carcinogenic human liver fluke, opisthorchis viverrini, was examined. the presence of o. viverrini cercariae in snails was examined by cercarial shedding test and then confirmed by specific hybridization probe-based real-time fluorescence resonance energy transfer (fr ... | 2010 | 21069540 |