An outbreak of schistosomiasis japonica in Taiwan

Lin, C.Y.; Fan, P.C.; Wu, C.C.; Lin, C.Y; Fan, P.C; Wu, C.C

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An outbreak of schistosomiasis japonica in Taiwan

Lin, C.Y.; Fan, P.C.; Wu, C.C.

Zhonghua Minguo Wei Sheng Wu Ji Mian Yi Xue Za Zhi 21(4): 243-246

1988

ISSN/ISBN: 0253-2662

PMID: 3151482

Document Number: 312212

Field and laboratory investigations were made after the death from severe diarrhoea of 15 of 71 cattle on a farm in central-west Taiwan in 1986. Cercariae were found in 101 of 593 Oncomelania snails, and adult worms developed in 10 of 14 albino mice exposed to the cercariae. Schistosoma japonicum eggs were found in faecal specimens from 2 of 4 dogs, 2 of 5 goats and 4 of 16 cattle. No human cases were observed, and it is not known whether this strain is purely zoophilic.Sheila M. Crewe.