A nationwide survey of the prevalence of human Gymnophalloides seoi infection on western and southern coastal islands in the Republic of Korea

Chai, Jong-Yil; Park, Jae-Hwan; Han, Eun‐Taek; Shin, Eun‐Hee; Kim, Jae-Lip; Hong, Kwang-Seon; Rim, Han-Jong; Lee, Soon-Hyung

doi:10.3347/kjp.2001.39.1.23

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“…There has been an increase in the incidence of G. seoi infections in humans in Korea (Chai et al 2003). The prevalence of infection in endemic areas ranges from 10% to 78% (Lee et al 1993Chai et al 2000Chai et al , 2001. The average worm burden determined after anthelmintic treatment and purgation of worms ranged over 1,006-26,373 specimens/individual .…”

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Food-borne intestinal trematodiases in humans

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Graczyk

Tamang

2004

Parasitology Research

148

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Food-borne trematodiases still remain a public health problem world-wide, despite changes in eating habits, alterations in social and agricultural practices, health education, industrialization, environmental alteration, and broad-spectrum anthelmintics. Food-borne trematodiases usually occur focally, are still persistently endemic in some parts of the world, and are most prevalent in remote rural places among school-age children, low-wage earners, and women of child-bearing age. Intestinal fluke diseases are aggravated by socio-economic factors such as poverty, malnutrition, an explosively growing free-food market, a lack of sufficient food inspection and sanitation, other helminthiases, and declining economic conditions. Control programs implemented for food-borne zoonoses and sustained in endemic areas are not fully successful for intestinal food-borne trematodiases because of centuries-old traditions of eating raw or insufficiently cooked food, widespread zoonotic reservoirs, promiscuous defecation, and the use of "night soil" (human excrement collected from latrines) as fertilizer. This review examines food-borne intestinal trematodiases associated with species in families of the Digenea: Brachylaimidae, Diplostomidae, Echinostomatidae, Fasciolidae, Gastrodiscidae, Gymnophallidae, Heterophyidae, Lecithodendriidae, Microphallidae, Nanophyetidae, Paramphistomatidae, Plagiorchiidae, and Strigeidae. Because most of the implicated species are in the Echinostomatidae and Heterophyidae, emphasis in the review is placed on species in these families.

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Section: Gymnophalidaementioning

confidence: 98%

Food-borne intestinal trematodiases in humans

Fried

Graczyk

Tamang

2004

Parasitology Research

148

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“…The patterns and prevalence of human helminth infections on coastal islands seem to be quite different from those of the inland (Chai et al, 2001(Chai et al, , 2004. For instance, intestinal trematodes including heterophyids and a gymnophallid are prevalent among residents of western and southern coastal islands, i.e., Heterophyes nocens (11.0%), Gymnophalloides seoi (3.8%), and Pygidiopsis summa (1.2%) (Chai et al, 2004).…”

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A survey of Enterobius vermicularis infection among children on western and southern coastal islands of the Republic of Korea

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“…The home village of the patient was a southwestern coastal island named Aphaedo, Shinan-gun, which was subsequently found to be a highly endemic area [150]. To date, more than 25 villages on western and southern coastal islands [151][152][153][154][155] and 3 non-island coastal villages [156] were identified as endemic areas. A 17th century femal mummy found in Hadong, a southern costal area of Korea, has been found to be infected with G. seoi; thus, this species is thought to have been prevalent in Korea for longer than several hundred years [157].…”

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