[Infection status of sweetfish from Kwangjung-stream and Namdae-stream in Yangyang-gun, Kangwon-do with the metacercariae of Metagonimus yokogawai]

Kisaengchunghak Chapchi. 1990 Dec;28(4):253-5. doi: 10.3347/kjp.1990.28.4.253.
[Article in Korean]

Abstract

This study was performed to observe the infection status of sweetfish, caught from Kwangjung-stream and Namdae-stream in Yangyang-gun, Kangwon-do in August 1989, with the metacercariae of Metagonimus yokogawai. All of 28 sweetfish from Kwangjung-stream were infected with the metacercariae of M. yokogawai. The number of metacercariae in a fish ranged 89-521(224 on average), and the number of larvae/g of flesh was 12 approximately 55 (22 on average). On the other hand, no metacercariae were detected in the fish from Namdae-stream. It has been confirmed that the Kwangjung-stream in Yangyang-gun, Kangwon-do is one of the endemic foci of metagonimiasis in Korea.

Publication types

  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Fish Diseases / epidemiology*
  • Fish Diseases / parasitology
  • Fresh Water*
  • Heterophyidae* / isolation & purification
  • Korea / epidemiology
  • Trematode Infections / epidemiology*
  • Trematode Infections / parasitology