ER. Animal-based national surveillance for zoonotic disease: quality, limitations , and implications of a model system for monitoring rabies. To the Editor: Diphyllobothrium latum, a fi sh tapeworm, has a complex cycle including copepods and freshwater fi sh as intermediate hosts. Humans are infected by eating raw or undercooked fi sh meat. Clinical consequences of human infection are generally...

tient clinic for recurrent lower abdominal pain. He did not have any remarkable medical and family history. The cramping abdominal pain was localized around the right lower quadrant region, and he had no other gastrointestinal symptoms. He often ate raw fish, and sometimes his feces contained noodle-like material. Serum chemistries were all within the normal ranges, and the hematologic examinat...

BACKGROUND A total number of 14 valid species of Diphyllobothrium tapeworms have been described in literature to be capable of causing diphyllobothriosis, with D. latum being the major causative agent of all human infections. However, recent data indicate that some of these infections, especially when diagnosed solely on the basis of morphology, have been identified with this causative agent in...

211 Abstract: The present study was carried out to examine the relationship between helminth infections, nutrient reserves and gonadal status in powan in relation to infection with Diphyllobothrium spp. The relationship between fish size and body composition was also investigated. The condition factor increased with increasing length for uninfected fish and decreased for infected fish. This dem...