TY - JOUR AU - Dung, Do Trung AU - Van De, Nguyen AU - Waikagul, Jitra AU - Dalsgaard, Anders AU - Chai, Jong-Yil AU - Sohn, Woon-Mok AU - Murrell, K. Darwin T1 - Fishborne Zoonotic Intestinal Trematodes, Vietnam T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2007 VL - 13 IS - 12 SP - 1828 SN - 1080-6059 AB - Although fishborne zoonotic trematodes that infect the liver are well documented in Vietnam, intestinal fishborne zoonotic trematodes are unreported. Recent discoveries of the metacercarial stage of these flukes in wild and farmed fish prompted an assessment of their risk to a community that eats raw fish. A fecal survey of 615 persons showed a trematode egg prevalence of 64.9%. Infected persons were treated to expel liver and intestinal parasites for specific identification. The liver trematode Clonorchis sinensis was recovered from 51.5%, but >1 of 4 intestinal species of the family Heterophyidae was recovered from 100%. The most numerous were Haplorchis spp. (90.4% of all worms recovered). These results demonstrate that fishborne intestinal parasites are an unrecognized food safety risk in a country whose people have a strong tradition of eating raw fish. KW - Zoonosis KW - intestinal trematodes KW - fishborne parasites KW - aquaculture KW - public health KW - hookworms KW - whipworms KW - roundworms KW - Vietnam KW - research DO - 10.3201/eid1312.070554 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/13/12/07-0554_article ER - End of Reference