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Authors :
Radačovská A
Bazsalovicsová E
Králová-Hromadová I
Source :
Helminthologia [Helminthologia] 2019 Sep 01; Vol. 56 (3), pp. 256-260. Date of Electronic Publication: 2019 Sep 01 (Print Publication: 2019).
Publication Year :
2019

Abstract

Diphyllobothriosis is a fish-borne parasitic zoonosis caused by so-called "broad tapeworms" or "fish tapeworms" of different genera of the order Diphyllobothriidea. Dibothriocephalus latus (Linnaeus 1758), (syn. Diphyllobothrium latum) , is a medically important type species of the genus, whose occurrence in various European regions is either regular, e.g. in the Alpine lakes region, or occasional and sporadic, e. g. in the Danube River region. For the latter, data on the detection of D. latus plerocercoids in the second intermediate fish host (European perch Perca fluviatilis ), as well as in definitive hosts (human and dog), in which infection was directly linked to the consumption of infected fish from the Danube, were published more than 50 years ago. In order to assess the current situation, we aimed to find out whether D. latus is present in the natural environment of the Danube River. In total, 700 perch from five sampling sites in the Slovak part of the Danube River were examined. Plerocercoids were not detected in any fish examined, which leads to the conclusion that D. latus is currently not present in the studied aquatic environment.<br />Competing Interests: Conflict of interest Authors declare no conflict of interest.<br /> (© 2019 A. Radačovská, E. Bazsalovicsová, I. Králová-Hromadová, published by Sciendo.)

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
0440-6605
Volume :
56
Issue :
3
Database :
MEDLINE
Journal :
Helminthologia
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
31662698
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.2478/helm-2019-0001