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Is Opisthorchis viverrini Emerging in Cambodia?
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Is Opisthorchis viverrini Emerging in Cambodia?

  • Khieu V National Center for Parasitology, Entomology and Malaria Control, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
  • Fürst T Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland; University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland; School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.
  • Miyamoto K School of Nursing, Faculty of Medicine & Center for International Education and Exchange, Yamanashi University, Yamanashi, Japan.
  • Yong TS Department of Environmental Biology, Institute of Tropical Medicine, and Arthropods of Medical Importance Resource Bank, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
  • Chai JY Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Korea Association of Health Promotion, Seoul, Republic of Korea; Department of Parasitology and Tropical Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
  • Huy R National Center for Parasitology, Entomology and Malaria Control, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
  • Muth S National Center for Parasitology, Entomology and Malaria Control, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
  • Odermatt P Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland; University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
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  • 2019-03-18
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  • Advances in parasitology. - 2019
Animal hosts
Cambodia
Liver fluke
Minute intestinal flukes
Opisthorchis viverrini
Review
Animals
Cambodia
Communicable Diseases, Emerging
Disease Notification
Humans
Opisthorchiasis
Opisthorchis
Prevalence
English Opisthorchis viverrini infection is widely prevalent in Southeast Asia. In Cambodia information on this helminth infection is scare. Recent reports suggest that O. viverrini is an emerging public health problem. We aimed to synthesize all information in relation to the infection, epidemiology, and morbidity of O. viverrini in Cambodia; from published as well as thus far unpublished sources. First reports on O. viverrini date back to 1995. In 2006 an O. viverrini initiative was launched by the national helminth control program. Since then O. viverrini has been reported in all - except two - provinces. Villages with high prevalences (>20%) were found in provinces from Preah Vihear to Takeo. The infection has a highly focal distribution. In many villages no infections were detected. O. viverrini infection was also reported in cats, dogs and intermediate hosts. No report on morbidity associated with O. viverrini was found. The current evidence suggests that O. viverrini infection remains underreported in Cambodia. It is likely that the transmission will further increase in the future with potentially serious consequences for human health.
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  • English
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