Research objective: To examine the nature of opisthorchiasis' epizootic process and factors forming the causative-agent transfer mechanism.
To clarify the epidemiological situation of opisthorchiasis in West Kazakhstan Region, a sanitary-epidemiological surveillance analysis of data of the population's morbidity rate was carried out.
To determine the presence of opisthorchiasis metacercariae in the fish, they were examined by the compressor method, followed by microscopy using MBS [3,9].
Grams, "Opisthorchis viverrini: evaluation of 28 kDa glutathione S-transferase as diagnostic tool in human
opisthorchiasis," Acta Tropica, vol.
A total of [approximately equal to]8.4 million persons worldwide have opisthorchiasis, of whom [approximately equal to]325,000 are in Europe (1).
The reference standard for diagnosing opisthorchiasis is observation of eggs in feces by microscopy.
can be performed if opisthorchiasis is suspected (9).
The detection of opisthorchiasis foci in Byelorussia [in Russian].
Clinical manifestation of opisthorchiasis and treatment.
Because so many persons have emigrated from the former USSR to Western countries in recent years, physicians in these countries should be more familiar with the condition; thus, review of the epidemiology of opisthorchiasis in former USSR is appropriate.
A diagnosis of opisthorchiasis was made on the basis of ova identified in the bile from the wife.
Other districts and territories where opisthorchiasis is endemic include the Yekaterinburg (formally Sverdlovsk) District (13), Altai territory, Voronezh District (14), Volga River valley (15) and Archangelsk District in western Russia, and the Angara River (16), Krasnoyarsk territory, and Irkutsk District in eastern Siberia (2).