| high prevalence of haplorchiasis in nan and lampang provinces, thailand, proven by adult worm recovery from suspected opisthorchiasis cases. | opisthorchiasis, a risk factor for cholangiocarcinoma in humans, is of public health importance in thailand. the annual surveillance reports from nan and lampang provinces, thailand, for the year 2011 showed an opisthorchiasis prevalence of over 70% by recovery of eggs in the feces. this study investigated whether most cases are actually due to minute intestinal flukes (mif) rather than opisthorchis viverrini, as the eggs of both can hardly be differentiated by morphology. fifty and 100 cases fr ... | 2013 | 24516289 |
| abnormal taenia saginata tapeworms in thailand. | sixty-eight residents of ban luang and ban pang kae villages, in nan province, northern thailand, visited our mobile field station in september 2006 and march 2007, seeking treatment for taeniasis. after treatment, 22 cases discharged tapeworm strobila in their fecal samples and 17 scolices were recovered. among these, 3 were morphologically abnormal, with six suckers on the scolex. to confirm the species of these tapeworms, the mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit i (coi) gene was used as ... | 2011 | 22299430 |