Prevalence of diphyllobothriasis in the zone of the Bratsk reservoir
Florinskaia, A.A.
Meditsinskaia Parazitologiia i Parazitarnye Bolezni 46(6): 682-685
1977
ISSN/ISBN: 0025-8326 PMID: 604755 Document Number: 111547
Examinations of fish performed in 1975 in the Bratsk water reservoir zone [USSR] near the dam revealed Diphyllobothrium latum larvae in 1 of 22 mature pike and D. dendriticum in 3 of 5 whitefish. These data as well as the results of helminthocoprological examination of the human population carried out by the Bratsk sanitary-epidemiological station in recent years indicate that in the Bratsk water reservoir zone favorable conditions exist for formation of local foci of diphyllobothriasis associated with D. latum and D. dendriticum. Further extensive studies as well as organization of measures for prevention of diphyllobothriases in this zone are necessary.