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Opisthorchis

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Opisthorchis /Opis·thor·chis/ (o″pis-thor´kis) a genus of flukes parasitic in the liver and biliary tract of various birds and mammals; O. feli´neus and O. viver´rini cause opisthorchiasis and O. sinen´sis causes clonorchiasis in humans.
Op·is·thor·chis (ps-thôrks, ps-)
n.
A genus of trematodes found in the bile ducts or gallbladder of fish-eating mammals, birds, and fish.

Opisthorchis [o″pis-thor´kis]
a genus of flukes parasitic in the liver and biliary tract of various birds and mammals, including humans; see opisthorchiasis. O. feli´neus is found from the Philippines, Japan, and Vietnam across Asia to Eastern Europe. O. viverri´ni is found in Southeast Asia.

Opisthorchis
a genus of flukes (digenetic trematodes) parasitic in the liver and biliary tract of various reptiles, birds and mammals, including humans. Causes opisthorchiasis.

Opisthorchis felineus
see Opisthorchis tenuicollis (below).
Opisthorchis sinensis
see clonorchissinensis.
Opisthorchis tenuicollis
found in the bile ducts, rarely the pancreatic duct and intestine, of dogs, cats, foxes, pigs and the Cetacea and humans.
Opisthorchis viverrini
occurs in domestic and wild cats, civets, dogs and humans.


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Opisthorchis felineus is a trematode that is transmitted to humans through the consumption of raw freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae.
Fish belonging to the family Ciprinidae (carp) are the major intermediate host of Clonorchis sinensis and Opisthorchis spp.
 
 
 
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