| paragonimiasis in sin ho district, lai chau province, viet nam. | forty-four cases of pulmonary paragonimiasis, two also with evidence of cerebral infection, were found in sin ho district in northern viet nam. there were 30 males and 14 females, 2-30 years of age. the diagnosis was made by sputum examination. pet dogs and wild dogs in the area were also found infected and the people often eat roasted crabs. | 1997 | 9656347 |
| epidemiology, symptoms and treatment of paragonimiasis in sin ho district, lai chau province, vietnam. | sin ho is a district of the northern mountainous province of lai chau, vietnam, where the people have the habit of eating undercooked crabs. a study on paragoniamiasis carried out from 1994 to 1995 with 1,642 persons in this endemic area, showed that the rate of eating raw-crab was 72.5%. crab examination (ranguna kimboiensis) showed an infection rate of paragonimus metacercaria of 98.1%. with 624 stool samples examined by kato technique, the infection rate of paragonimus in humans was 6.4%. wit ... | 2000 | 11414455 |