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Tissue parasitic helminthiases are prevalent at Cheongjin, North Korea
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- Issue Date
- 2007-06-16
- Publisher
- Korean Society for Parasitology
- Citation
- Korean Journal of Parasitology 45: 139-144
- Keywords
- Aged ; Antibodies, Helminth/blood ; Antigens, Helminth/blood ; Child ; Child, Preschool ; Clonorchis sinensis/isolation & purification ; Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay ; Female ; Helminthiasis/*epidemiology/*parasitology ; Humans ; Immunoglobulin G/blood ; Korea/epidemiology ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Prevalence ; Seroepidemiologic Studies ; Sparganum/isolation & purification ; Taenia solium/isolation & purification
- Abstract
- We investigated a small-scale serological survey to screen tissue-parasitic helminthiases of North Koreans as one of research programs for re-unification of Korea. Soil-transmitted helminthiases were found highly prevalent among North Korean residents at the border with China. ELISA using 4 tissue-parasitic helminth antigens was applied to 137 residents living in Cheongjin-shi, Hamgyeongbuk-do, North Korea and 133 female refugees in South Korea in 2004-2005. Among a total of 270 samples, 31 (11.5%), 25 (9.3%), and 11 (4.1%) were positive for specific IgG antibodies to antigens of Clonorchis sinensis, Taenia solium metacestode, and sparganum, respectively. The overall positive rate was 21.5%; 38.2% in males and 15.8% in females. The present finding suggests that tissue parasites, such as C. sinensis, T. solium metacestode and sparganum are highly prevalent in some limited areas of North Korea. These foodborne tissue-parasitic helminthiases should be considered for future control measures of parasitic diseases in North Korea.
- ISSN
- 0023-4001 (Print)
1738-0006 (Online)
- Language
- English
- URI
- http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=17570978
https://hdl.handle.net/10371/28665
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