Publication: Opisthorchis viverrini infection in rural and urban communities in northeast Thailand
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1987-01-01
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00359203
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Mahidol University
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Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. Vol.81, No.3 (1987), 411-414
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Sucha Kurathong, Pravit Lerdverasirikul, Virasak Wongpaitoon, Chutima Pramoolsinsap, E. Suchart Upatham Opisthorchis viverrini infection in rural and urban communities in northeast Thailand. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. Vol.81, No.3 (1987), 411-414. doi:10.1016/0035-9203(87)90154-4 Retrieved from: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/20.500.14594/15356
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Opisthorchis viverrini infection in rural and urban communities in northeast Thailand
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The prevalence and intensity of liver-fluke (Opisthorchis viverrini) infection were investigated among 559 patients who were born in, and had lived all their lives in, either the rural or urban northeastern Thailand. 344 (79·4%) of 433 rural dwellers were infected compared with only 69 (54·8%) of 126 urban dwellers (P < 0·005). The intensity of infection, and the reported level of consumption of koi-pla, a favourite dish of local inhabitants prepared from uncooked freshwater fish which often contains viable metacercariae, were greater among rural dwellers than their urban counterparts (P < 0·05 to P < 0·005). Infection due to O. viverrini appears to be mainly a rural problem strongly associated with the habit and frequency of eating koi-pla. © 1987.