Fish-borne zoonotic trematode metacercariae in the Republic of Korea

Korean Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 47, Issue SUPPL., 2009, Pages

  Sohn, Woon Mok ^a  

^a Gyeongsang National University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Brackish water fish; Differential key; Fish borne trematode (fbt); Freshwater fish; Identification; Metacercaria

Indexed keywords

CENTROCESTUS ARMATUS; CLINOSTOMUM COMPLANATUM; CLONORCHIS SINENSIS; ECHINOSTOMA CINETORCHIS; ECHINOSTOMA HORTENSE; ECHINOSTOMA JAPONICUS; FRESHWATER FISH; HOST; METACERCARIA; METAGONIMUS; METHODOLOGY; METORCHIS ORIENTALIS; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PARASITE EXAMINATION; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; SHORT SURVEY; SOUTH KOREA; TAXONOMY; TREMATODE; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; FISHES; FRESH WATER; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; REPUBLIC OF KOREA; TREMATODA; TREMATODE INFECTIONS; ZOONOSES;

ACANTHOTREMA; ARMATUS; CENTROCESTUS; CLINOSTOMIDAE; CLINOSTOMUM COMPLANATUM; CLONORCHIS SINENSIS; ECHINOCHASMUS; ECHINOSTOMA HORTENSE; ECHINOSTOMATIDAE; FELIS; HETEROPHYES NOCENS; HETEROPHYIDAE; HETEROPHYOPSIS CONTINUA; METAGONIMUS; METAGONIMUS TAKAHASHII; METAGONIMUS YOKOGAWAI; METORCHIS; OPISTHORCHIIDAE; PYGIDIOPSIS SUMMA; STELLANTCHASMUS FALCATUS; STICTODORA FUSCATA; STICTODORA LARI; TREMATODA;

EID: 73349100313     PISSN: 00234001     EISSN: 17380006     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3347/kjp.2009.47.S.S103     Document Type: Short Survey

References (65)

1. WHO. Food-borne trematode infections in Asia. Report of Joint WHO/FAO Workshop, Hanoi, Vietnam, 2002.
2. Chai JY, Murrell KD, Lymbry A. Fish-borne parasitic zoonoses: status and issues. Int J Parasitol 2005; 35: 1233-1254.
3. Chai JY. Intestinal flukes. In Murrell KD and Fried B eds, Food-Borne Parasitic Zoonoses: Fish and Plant-Borne Parasites. World Class Parasites, Vol. 11. New York, USA. Springer. 2007, p 53-115.
4. Rim HJ. Epidemiology and control of clonorchiasis in Korea. Southeast Asian J Trop Med Public Health 1997; 28(suppl): 47-50.
5. Cho SH, Lee KY, Lee BC, Cho PY, Cheun HI, Hong ST, Sohn WM, Kim TS. Prevalence of clonorchiasis in southern endemic areas of Korea in 2006. Korean J Parasitol 2008; 46: 133-137.
6. Hong ST, Chai JY, Choi MH, Huh S, Rim HJ, Lee SH. A successful experience of soil-transmitted helminth control in the Republic of Korea. Korean J Parasitol 2006; 44: 177-185.
7. Korea Association of Health Promotion and Korean Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Prevalence of Intestinal Parasites in Korea. The 7th Report. Seoul, Korea. Art Motion, 2004.
8. Komiya K. Metacercariae in Japan and adjacent territories. In Morishita K, Komiya Y, Matsubayashi H eds, Progress of Medical Parasitology in Japan, Vol. II. Tokyo, Japan. Meguro Parasitological Museum. 1965, p 14-20.
9. Fried B. Maintenance, cultivation, and excystation of echinostomes. In Fried B, Graczyk TK eds, Echinostomes as Experimental Models for Biological Research. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers. 2000, p 99-118.
10. Sukantason KL, Sukantason K, Kuntalue B, Boonsriwong N, Piangjai S, Chaithong U, Vanittanakom P. Surface ultrastructure of excysted metacercariae of Haplorchis taichui (Trematoda: Heterophyidae). Southeast Asian J Trop Med Public Health 2000; 31: 747-754.
11. Ooi H K, Chen C.I, Oku Y. Excystation of Haplorchis taichui metacercariae could be elicited by change in pH. Jpn J Vet Res 2002; 50: 3-7.
12. Li S, Chung YB, Chung BS, Choi, MH, Yu JR, Hong ST. 2004. The involvement of the cysteine proteases of Clonorchis sinensis metacercariae in excystment. Parasitol Res 2004; 93: 36-40.
13. Search FishBase: http://www.fishbase.org/search.php.
14. Kobayashi H. On the life history and morphology of the liver distoma (Clonorchis sinensis). Mitt Med Hochsch Keijo 1917; 1: 251-289.
15. Lee SK, Kim KS. An epidemiological study of Clonorchis sinensis. J Taegu Med J 1958; 1: 1-7.
16. Seo BS. The in vitro excystation of metacercariae of Clonorchis sinensis. New Med J 1959; 2: 1389-1397.
17. Chun SK. Studies on some trematodes whose intermediate hosts are fishes in the Naktong River. Bull Pusan Fish Coll 1962; 4: 21-38.
18. Shin DS. Epidemiological studies of Clonorchis sinensis prevailed in the peoples of Kyungpook Province. Korean J Parasitol 1964; 2: 1-13.
19. Lee JT. Studies on the metacercariae from freshwater fishes in the Kumho River. Korean J Parasitol 1968; 6: 77-99.
20. Kim DC. Ecological studies of Clonorchis sinensis. Endemicity and propagation of clonorchiasis in high and low endemic areas in Korea. Yonsei Rep Trop Med 1974; 5: 3-44.
21. Choi DW. Clonorchis sinensis in Kyungpook province, Korea 2. Demonstration of metacercaria of Clonorchis sinensis from fresh water fish. Korean J Parasitol 1976; 14: 10-16.
22. Joo CY. Epidemiological studies of Clonorchis sinensis in vicinity of River Taewha, Kyungnam Province, Korea. Korean J Parasitol 1980; 18: 199-214.
23. Hwang JT, Choi DW. Changing pattern of infestation with larval trematodes from freshwater fish in river Kumho, Kyungpook Province, Korea. Kyungpook Uni Med J 1980; 21: 460-475.
24. Rhee JK, Lee HI, Baek BK, Kim PG. Survey on encysted cercariae of trematodes from freshwater fishes in Mangyeong riverside area. Korean J Parasitol 1983; 21: 187-192.
25. Rhee JK, Rim MH, Baek BK, Lee HI. Survey on encysted cercariae of trematodes from freshwater fishes in Tongjin riverside areas in Korea. Korean J Parasitol 1984; 22: 190-202.
26. Rim HJ. The current pathobiology and chemotherapy of clonorchiasis. Korean J Parasitol 1986; 24(suppl): 1-141.
27. Joo CY, Hong YA. Epidemiological studies of Clonorchis sinensis in the vicinity of River Ahnseong, Kyungpook Province, Korea. Jpn J Parasitol 1991; 40: 542-552.
28. Nam HS, Sohn WM. Infection status with trematode metacercariae in pond smelts, Hypomesus olidus. Korean J Parasitol 2000; 38: 37-39.
29. Moon HD, Na BK, Sohn WM. Infection status of trematode in residents of riverside villages and in freshwater fishes from Gyeonghogang (River) in Sancheong-gun, Gyeongsangnam-do, Korea. Gyeongsang Institute Health Sci J 2007; 3: 187-204.
30. Xu LQ, Yu SH, Chen YD. Clonorchiasis sinensis in China. In Arizono N, Chai JY, Nawa Y, Takahashi Y eds, Asian Parasitology, Vol. 1. Food-Borne Helminthiasis in Asia. Chiba, Japan. Federation of Asian parasitologists. 2004, p 1-26.
31. Chun SK. A study on Metagonimus yokogawai from Plecoglossus altivelis in the Miryang River. Bull Pusan Fish Coll 1960a; 3: 24-32.
32. Choi DW, Lee JT, Hwang HK, Shin YD. Studies of the larval trematodes from brackish water fishes. 2. Observation on Metagonimus yokogawai Katsurada, 1912. Korean J Parasitol 1966; 4: 33-37.
33. Ahn YK. Lateolabrax japonicus, a role of second intermediate host of Metagonimus yokogawai. New Med J 1983; 26: 135-139.
34. Chun SK. A study on the metacercaria of Metagonimus takahashii and Exorchis oviformis from Carassius carassius. Bull Pusan Fish Coll 1960b; 3: 31-39.
35. Chai JY, Sohn WM, Kim MH, Hong ST, Lee SH. Three morphological types of the genus Metagonimus encysted in the dace, Tribolodon taczanowskii, caught from Sumjin River. Korean J Parasitol 1991; 29: 217-225.
36. Rim HJ, Kim KH, Joo KH. Classification and host specificity of Metagonimus spp. from Korean freshwater fish. Korean J Parasitol 1996; 34: 7-14.
37. Kim DG, Kim TS, Cho SH, Song HJ, Sohn WM. Heterophyid metacercarial infections in brackish water fishes from Jinju-man (Bay), Kyongsangnam-do, Korea. Korean J Parasitol 2006; 44: 7-13.
38. Saito S, Chai JY, Kim KH, Lee SH, Rim HJ. Metagonimus miyatai sp. nov. (Digenea: Heterophyidae), a new intestinal trematode transmitted by freshwater fishes in Japan and Korea. Korean J Parasitol 1997; 35: 223-232.
39. Kim CH. Study on the Metagonimus sp. in Gum River Basin, Chungchung-nam Do, Korea. Korean J Parasitol 1980; 18: 215-228.
40. Kim JH, Choi DW. Infestation with larval trematodes from freshwater fish in natural and fish breeding ponds. Korean J Parasitol 1981; 19: 157-166.
41. Kim CH, Kim NM, Lee CH, Park JS. Studies on the Metagonimus fluke in the Daecheong reservoir and upper stream of Geum River. Korean J Parasitol 1987; 25: 69-82.
42. Hong SJ, Woo HC, Kim IT. Study on Centrocestus armatus in Korea. I. Infection status of Zacco platypus and Z. temminckii with the metacercariae of C. armatus. Korean J Parasitol 1989; 27: 41-46.
43. Chai JY, Hong SJ, Sohn WM, Lee SH, Seo BS. Studies on intestinal trematode in Korea. XVI. Infection status of loaches with the metacercariae of Echinostoma hortense. Korean J Parasitol 1985; 23: 18-23.
44. Ryang YS, Ahn YK, Lee KW, Kim TS, Hahn MH. Two cases of natural human infection by Echinostoma hortense and its second intermediate host in Wonju area. Korean J Parasitol 1985; 23: 33-40.
45. Ahn YK, Ryang YS. Experimental and epidemiological studies on the life cycle of Echinostoma hortense Asada, 1926 (Trematoda: Echinostomatidae). Korean J Parasitol 1986; 24: 121-136.
46. Lee SK, Chung NS, Ko IH, Sohn WM, Hong ST, Chai JY, Lee SH. An epidemiological survey of Echinostoma hortense infection in Chongsong-gun, Kyongbuk Province. Korean J Parasitol 1988; 26: 199-206.
47. Rim HJ, Kim KH, Joo KH, Kim SJ, Eom KS, Chung MS. The infestation states and changing patterns of human infecting metacercariae in freshwater fish in Kyongsang-do and Kyonggi-do, Korea. Korean J Parasitol 1996; 34: 95-105.
48. Sohn WM, Na BK, Cho SH. Echinostoma hortense and heterophyid metacercariae encysted in yellowfin goby, Acanthogobius flavimanus, from Shinan-gun and Muan-gun (Jeollanam-do), Korea. Korean J Parasitol 2009; 47: 307-310.
49. Seo BS, Park YH, Chai JY, Hong SJ, Lee SH. Studies on intestinal trematodes in Korea. XIV. Infection status of loaches with metacercariae of Echinostoma cinetorchis and their development in albino rats. Korean J Parasitol 1984; 22: 181-189.
50. Chung DI, Kong HH, Moon CH. Demonstration of the second intermediate hosts of Clinostomum complanatum in Korea. Korean J Parasitol 1995; 33:305-312.
51. Seo BS, Cho SY, Chai JY, Hong ST. Studies on intestinal trematodes in Korea. II. Identification of the metacercariae of Heterophyes heterophyes nocens in mullets of three southern coastal areas. Seoul J Med 1980; 21: 30-38.
52. Seo BS, Hong ST, Chai JY, Cho SY. Studies on intestinal trematodes in Korea. IV. Geographical distribution of Pygidiopsis and Heterophyes metacercariae. Seoul J Med 1981; 22: 236-242.
53. Sohn WM, Kim JA, Song HJ. Two species of goby, Boleophthalmus pectinirostris and Scartelaos sp., as the new second intermediate host of heterophyid flukes in Korea. Korean J Parasitol 2005; 43: 161-164.
54. Kim DG, Kim TS, Cho SH, Song HJ, Sohn WM. Heterophyid metacercarial infections in brackish water fishes from Jinju-man (Bay), Kyongsangnam-do, Korea. Korean J Parasitol 2006; 44: 7-13.
55. Chun SK. A study on some trematodes whose intermediate host are brackish water fish. (1) The life history of Heterophyes continus, the intermediate host of which is Laterolabrax japonicus. Bull Pusan Fish Coll 1960c; 3: 40-44.
56. Seo BS, Lee SH, Chai JY, Hong SJ. Studies on intestinal trematodes in Korea. XIII. Two cases of natural human infection by Heterophyopsis continua and the status of metacercarial infection in brackish water fishes. Korean J Parasitol 1984; 22: 51-60.
57. Sohn WM, Han GG, Kho WG, Chai JY, Lee SH. Infection status with the metacercariae of heterophyid flukes in the brackish water fish from Haenam-gun, Chollanam-do, Korea. Korean J Parasitol 1994; 32: 163-169.
58. Cho SY, Kim SI. Plecoglossus altivelis as a new fish intermediate host of Heterophyopsis continua. Korean J Parasitol 1985; 23: 173-174.
59. Kim KH, Choi ES, Rim HJ. Conger myriaster, a new second intermediate host of Heterophyopsis continua. Korean J Parasitol 1996; 34: 283-285.
60. Chun SK. A study on some trematodes whose intermediate host are brackish water fish. (II) The life history of Pygidiopsis summa, the intermediate host of which is Mugil cephalus. Bull Pusan Fish Coll 1963; 5: 1-5.
61. Seo BS, Hong ST, Chai JY, Cho SY. Studies on intestinal trematodes in Korea. IV. Geographical distribution of Pygidiopsis and Heterophyes metacercariae. Seoul J Med 1981; 22: 236-242.
62. Chai JY, Sohn WM. Identification of Stellantchasmus falcatus metacercariae encysted in mullets in Korea. Korean J Parasitol 1988; 26: 65-68.
63. Sohn WM, Chai JY, Lee SH. Stictodora fuscatum (Heterophyidae) metacercariae encysted in gobies, Acanthogobius flavimanus. Korean J Parasitol 1994; 32: 143-148.
64. Chai JY, Park SK, Hong SJ, Choi MH, Lee SH. Identification of Stictodora lari (Heterophyidae) metacercariae encysted in the brackish water fish, Acanthogobius flavimanus. Korean J Parasitol 1989; 27: 253-259.
65. Sohn WM, Han ET, Seo M, Chai JY. Identification of Acanthotrema felis (Digenea: Heterophyidae) metacercariae encysted in the brackish water fish Acanthogobius flavimanus. Korean J Parasitol 2003; 41: 101-105.