Volume 13, Number 12—December 2007
Research
Fishborne Zoonotic Intestinal Trematodes, Vietnam
Do Trung Dung*†, Nguyen Van De‡, Jitra Waikagul†, Anders Dalsgaard§, Jong-Yil Chai¶, Woon-Mok Sohn#, and K. Darwin Murrell§
Table 1
Helminth infections in persons living in Nghia Phu and Nghia Lac communes, Nam Dinh Province, Vietnam, April 2005
| Helminth egg species or type | Fecal examination result, no. positive (%) |
|---|---|
| Small trematodes (<50 μm long) | 399 (64.9) |
| Large trematodes (>50 μm long) | 5 (0.8) |
| Ascaris lumbricoides | 243 (39.5) |
| Trichuris trichiura | 358 (58.2) |
| Hookworm |
19 (3.1) |
| Total positive | 554/615 (90.1) |
