| 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 |
| occurrence of some medically important flukes (trematoda: opisthorchiidae and heterophyidae) in nam ngum water reservoir, laos. | occurrence of some medically important flukes transmitted to man by eating of raw fish was observed at 18 localities of nam ngum water reservoir, an important source of fish for inhabitants of vientiane province, laos. cercariae of opisthorchis viverrini were recorded in 0.9% of bithynia siamensis goniomphalus examined but in the most populated sites, where the density of the snails was the highest up to 2.2% of the intermediate hosts were infected. haplorchis cercariae were found in 2.0% of tar ... | 1990 | 2075492 |