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ArticleThe Korean journal of parasitology2020

Echinostoma mekongi n. sp. (Digenea: Echinostomatidae) from Riparian People along the Mekong River in Cambodia.

Jaeeun Cho, Bong-Kwang Jung, Taehee Chang, Woon-Mok Sohn, Muth Sinuon, Jong-Yil Chai

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Article in The Korean journal of parasitology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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Jaeeun ChoInstitute of Parasitic Diseases, Korea Association of Health Promotion, Seoul 07649, Korea.
Bong-Kwang JungInstitute of Parasitic Diseases, Korea Association of Health Promotion, Seoul 07649, Korea.
Taehee ChangInstitute of Parasitic Diseases, Korea Association of Health Promotion, Seoul 07649, Korea.
Woon-Mok SohnDepartment of Parasitology and Tropical Medicine, and Institute of Health Sciences, Gyeongsang National University College of Medicine, Jinju 52727, Korea.
Muth SinuonNational Center for Parasitology, Entomology and Malaria Control, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
Jong-Yil ChaiInstitute of Parasitic Diseases, Korea Association of Health Promotion, Seoul 07649, Korea.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Echinostoma mekongi n. sp. (Digenea: Echinostomatidae) is described based on adult flukes collected from humans residing along the Mekong River in Cambodia. Total 256 flukes were collected from the diarrheic stool of 6 echinostome egg positive villagers in Kratie and Takeo Province after praziquantel treatment and purging. Adults of the new species were 9.0-13.1 (av. 11.3) mm in length and 1.3-2.5 (1.9) mm in maximum width and characterized by having a head collar armed with 37 collar spines (dorsal spines arranged in 2 alternative rows), including 5 end group spines. The eggs in feces and worm uterus were 98-132 (117) μm long and 62-90 (75) μm wide. These morphological features closely resembled those of Echinostoma revolutum, E. miyagawai, and several other 37-collar-spined Echinostoma species. However, sequencing of the nuclear ITS (ITS1-5.8S rRNA-ITS2) and 2 mitochondrial genes, cox1 and </>nad1, revealed unique features distinct from E. revolutum and also from other 37-collar-spined Echinostoma group available in GenBank (E. bolschewense, E. caproni, E. cinetorchis, E. deserticum, E. miyagawai, E. nasincovae, E. novaezealandense, E. paraensei, E. paraulum, E. robustum, E. trivolvis, and Echinostoma sp. IG). Thus, we assigned our flukes as a new species, E. mekongi. The new species revealed marked variation in the morphology of testes (globular or lobulated), and smaller head collar, collar spines, oral and ventral suckers, and cirrus sac compared to E. revolutum and E. miyagawai. Epidemiological studies regarding the geographical distribution and its life history, including the source of human infections, remain to be performed.

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AdolescentAdultAnimalsCambodiaChildEchinostomaFemaleHelminthiasisHumansMaleParasite Egg CountYoung Adult37-collar-spined echinostomeCambodiaEchinostoma mekongiKratie ProvinceMekong RiverTakeo Province

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PMCPMC7462798

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