Volume 24, Number 8—August 2018
CME ACTIVITY - Synopsis
Epidemiology of Diphyllobothrium nihonkaiense Diphyllobothriasis, Japan, 2001–2016
Hiroshi Ikuno
, Shinkichi Akao1, and Hiroshi Yamasaki
, Shinkichi Akao1, and Hiroshi Yamasaki
Table
Cestode species identified in patient fecal samples, Japan, 2001–2016
| Species | No. samples |
Total, no. (%)† | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Proglottid (no.)* | Egg | ||
| Diphyllobothrium nihonkaiense | 526 (153) | 299 | 825 (86.1) |
| Diplogonoporus balaenopterae | 32 (8) | 0 | 32 (3.3) |
| Spirometra spp. | 2 | 0 | 2 (0.2) |
| Taenia spp. |
72 (18) |
27 |
99 (10.3) |
| Total | 632 (179) | 326 | 958 (100) |
*Number in parentheses indicates the number examined by molecular analysis during 2012–2016.
†Numbers do not add up to 100% because of rounding.
1Retired.
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