 BackInvited Review ScienceAsia 14 (1988): 245-262 |doi: 10.2306/scienceasia1513-1874.1988.14.245
A REVIEW OF EXPERIMENTAL AND FIELD RESEARCH ON THE HUMAN LIVER FLUKE, OPISTHORCHIS VIVERRINI
E. SUCHART UPATHAMABSTRACT: Opisthorchiasis is caused by a liver fluke, Opisthorchis viverrini, which afflicts approximately seven million inhabitants in the northeast and north of Thailand. The parasite utilizes, respectively, freshwater snails and cyprinoid fish as m first and second intermediate hosts. Man is the accidental definitive host who acquires infection through the co.nsumption of improperly cooked cyprinoid fish. To assist beginning researchers, information concerning experimental and field research on various aspects. of o. viverrini, especially the epidemiology and transmission dynamics, is compiled and presented. Center for Applied Malacology and Entomology, Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciemce, Mahidol University, Bangkok 10400, Thailand. Received 8 December 1988
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