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Volume 30, Number 8—August 2024
Research Letter

Rare Case of Echinostoma cinetorchis Infection, South Korea

Sooji Hong, Hyejoo Shin, Yoon-Hee Lee, Sung-Jong Hong, So-Ri Kim, Youn-Kyoung Kim, Young-Jin Son, Jeong-Gil Song, Jong-Yil Chai, and Bong-Kwang JungComments to Author 
Author affiliations: MediCheck Research Institute, Korea Association of Health Promotion, Seoul, South Korea (S. Hong, H. Shin, Y.-H. Lee, J.-Y. Chai, B.-K. Jung); Convergence Research Center for Insect Vectors, Incheon National University, Incheon, South Korea (S.-J. Hong); Dr. Song Jeong-Gil’s Internal Medical Clinic, Pyeongtaek, South Korea (S.-R. Kim, Y.-K. Kim, Y.-J. Son, J.-G. Song); Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul (J.-Y. Chai)

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Figure 1

Analysis of a worm identified as Echinostoma cinetorchis removed during colonoscopy from a 69-year-old woman in South Korea. A) Colonoscopy image showing a moving trematode in the mucosa of the descending colon. B) Whole body of the worm. Scale bar = 0.6 mm. C) Head part of the worm showing collar spines (37 in total number) on the head collar around the oral sucker, by which it could be morphologically identified as a 37-collar-spined echinostome. Scale bar = 0.1 mm). O, ovary; OS, oral sucker; T, testis; VS, ventral sucker.

Figure 1. Analysis of a worm identified as Echinostoma cinetorchis removed during colonoscopy from a 69-year-old woman in South Korea. A) Colonoscopy image showing a moving trematode in the mucosa of the descending colon. B) Whole body of the worm. Scale bar = 0.6 mm. C) Head part of the worm showing collar spines (37 in total number) on the head collar around the oral sucker, by which it could be morphologically identified as a 37-collar-spined echinostome. Scale bar = 0.1 mm). O, ovary; OS, oral sucker; T, testis; VS, ventral sucker.

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