Skip directly to site content Skip directly to page options Skip directly to A-Z link Skip directly to A-Z link Skip directly to A-Z link
Volume 30, Number 3—March 2024
Dispatch

High Prevalence of Echinostoma mekongi Infection in Schoolchildren and Adults, Kandal Province, Cambodia

Bong-Kwang Jung1, Taehee Chang1, Seungwan Ryoo, Sooji Hong, Jeonggyu Lee, Sung-Jong Hong, Woon-Mok Sohn, Virak Khieu, Rekol Huy, and Jong-Yil ChaiComments to Author 
Author affiliations: MediCheck Research Institute, Korea Association of Health Promotion, Seoul, South Korea (B.-K. Jung, S. Ryoo, S. Hong, J. Lee); Seoul National University Graduate School of Public Health, Seoul (T. Chang); Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul (J.-Y. Chai); Convergence Research Center for Insect Vectors, Inchon National University, Incheon, South Korea (S.-J. Hong); Gyeongsang National University College of Medicine, Jinju, South Korea (W.-M. Sohn); National Center for Parasitology, Entomology and Malaria Control, Ministry of Health, Phnom Penh, Cambodia (V. Khieu, R. Huy)

Main Article

Table 2

Worm expulsion after praziquantel treatment and purging from volunteers positive for Echinostoma mekongi eggs in fecal examinations in study of Echinostoma mekongi infection in schoolchildren and adults, Kandal Province, Cambodia*

Age group and code no. Age, y No. E. mekongi eggs in Kato-Katz fecal smears† No. adult E. mekongi fluke specimens expelled‡
Schoolchildren
1 15 168 46
2 15 264 6
3 16 96 4
4 16 480 2
5 14 168 2
6 13 216 2
7 13 168 1§
8
 12
 48
 1
Adults
1 46 720 15
2 41 120 7§

*All case-patients were female. Fecal samples were collected individually 2–3 h after praziquantel administration and purging with MgSO4. †Eggs/g of feces; amount in a typical smear was assumed to be 41.7 mg. ‡All recovered worms were adults that contained eggs except for 38 of 46 worms from schoolchildren case 1, which were juvenile or young adults containing no or only a few uterine eggs. §Adult specimens of Enterobius vermicularis (120 female worms in schoolchildren no. 7 and 1 female worm in adult no. 2) were collected simultaneously

Main Article

1These authors contributed equally to this article.

Page created: January 31, 2024
Page updated: February 22, 2024
Page reviewed: February 22, 2024
The conclusions, findings, and opinions expressed by authors contributing to this journal do not necessarily reflect the official position of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Public Health Service, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or the authors' affiliated institutions. Use of trade names is for identification only and does not imply endorsement by any of the groups named above.
file_external