The present work was to observe the wormicidal effects of the external mucous substance of Carassius carassius and Pseudorasbora parva on cercaria, metacercaria (liberating) and adult of Clonorchis sinensis. The mucous substance which was extracted by ether was separated into various spots on the silica gel thin layer chromatography and separated into various fractions in the silica gel column chromatography, using petroleum ether(30 percent) and chloroform(70 percent) as solvent. R(f) 0.952 value of the silica gel thin layer chromatography and the first fraction (reddish yellow) frorn the silica gel column chromatography of the ether extracts from C. carassius had the wormicidal effect on all of the developing stages of C. sinensis. Cercaria was killed within 14 minutes, metacercaria within 27 minutes and adult 2.5 hours by the first fraction. But in the normal saline solution (control) and in the other fraction, cercaria and metacercaria were alive more than 24 hours and adult more than 72 hours. The extracts from the mucous substance of P. parva that is well penetrated by cercaria had no wormicidal effect on them.
parasitology-helminth-trematoda ; clonorchiasis-Clnorchis sinensis ; metacercaria ; Carassius carassius ; Pseudorasbora parva ; mucous substance ; chromatography

Two cases of human Echinostoma hortense infection and their probable infection source were identified by praziqantel (Distocide) treatment of the patients and by examining two kinds of fresh water fish which were eaten raw by them. The result of the research can be summarized as follows: The patients, each aged 31 and 30, were residing in the same house in Wonju City, Kangwon Province. The first case was hospitalized due to epidemic hemorrhagic fever (E.H. fever) and the second case was healthy but had slight degree of abdominal pain and diarrhea from time to time. In the stool examination, eggs of E. hortense (114.3 x 71.0 micrometer average from the first case and 119.1 x 68.3 micrometer average from the second) were found. By administering single dose of praziquantel (10~15 mg/kg) and purgation with magnesium salt to them, six adults of E. hortense were collected from the diarrheal stools of the second case. By examining 84 Moroco oxycephalus and 20 Carassius carassius which were captured at the place where the two patients had captured and eaten the fresh water fish, the metacercariae of Echinostoma sp. were found from 3 (3.5 percent) M. oxycephalus. After the experimental infection of 3 isolated metacercariae to one albino rat three adults of E. hortense were recovered. By the present study, the two patients revealing the echinostomatid eggs in their stools were proven to be infected with E. hortense and to be the second and third human cases of this fluke infection in Korea. Moroco oxycephalus harboured the metacercariae of E. hortense and appeared to be a new second intermediate host.
parasitology-helminth-trematoda ; Echinostoma hortense ; case report ; intermediate host ; rat ; Moroco oxycephalus ; Carassius carassius

The epidermal mucous substances of C. carassius which were extracted by ether were separated into various spots on the silica gel thin layer chromatography and separated into various fractions in the silica gel column chromatography, using petroleum ether (30 percent) and chloroform(70 percent) as a solvent. The wormicidal effects of the spots and the fractions on the cercaria, the liberating metacercaria and the adult of C. sinensis, were observed by month giving attention to ambient water temperature. Among the four spots of the thin 1ayer chromatography of the ether extracts from C. carassius, the uppermost first spots (Rf. 0.924-0965) had a strong wormicidal effect on the cercaria in May, June, July, August and September, and the cercaria which came in contact with the materials was killed in 29-49 min., but in other months (Rf. 0.612-0.752) it was killed only after 50-115 min. In column chromatography of ether extracts from C. carassius, the first fractions which had a wormicidal effect killed the metacercariae within 38-163 min. in May, June, July, August, and September, but it took about 120-458 min. to kill them in other months, meanwhile the wormicidal time of the fractions on the adults was 445-835 min. in May, June, July, August and September, but was 878-2,130 min. in other months. The Rf. value of the uppermost first spot of the thin layer chromatography of ether extrart from the mucous substance of C. carassius which was reared in the aquarium controlled at 23 C was 0.79, and its first fraction of column chromatography killed the metacercaria and the adult of C. sinensis within 315, and 1,850 min. respectively. As summarized above, the wormicidal materials of the epidermal mucous substances of C. carassius had no relation to ambient water temperature, but the secretion period of this wormicidal materials was the same as the liberating period of the cercariae from Parafossarulus manchouricus.
parasitology-helminth-trematoda ; Clonorchis sinensis ; Carassius carassius ; Parafossarulus manchouricus ; chromatography ; mucous substance

The prevalences of the fluke belonging to genus Metagonimus have been reported along the upper stream of inhabitants by several workers since 1980, however the taxonomical problems of the fluke was not yet settled. The larval flukes; cercaria and metacercaria as well as their intermediate hosts, and adult were studied in order to identify the Metagonimus in the areas. The results obtained are summarized as follows: The snails, Semisulcospira globus were collected from the three different localities along the upper stream of the River. The cercariae were found from 125(7.2%) out of 1,730 snails by natural emerging method, and were identified into 5 species including Metagonimus sp. (3.7%), Pseudexorchis major(1.4%), Cercaria nipponensis (0.9), Cercaria incerta (0.6%) and Cercaria yoshidae(0.6%). Cercariae of Metagonimus species had four to five oral spines on its anterior of the first line. The cercariae of Metagonimus were experimentally exposed to goldfish. Infection rate was 22.9% out of 105 goldfish, and the encysted metacercariae were found in fins(86.7%) and on scales (13.7%) of the fishes, but not in their muscle, head or visceral organs. Seven species of fish were caught in the Daecheong reservoir and the upper stream. Infestations with metacercaria of Metagonimus were found 100% in Opsariichtys bidens and the parasitized numbers of the metacercariae were observed from 250 to 2,400 per fish. In the upper stream, Zacco temmincki, Z. platypus and Pseudogobio esocinus were infected 100% with the metacercaria, on the other hand, the fishes caught in the reservoir showed the lower infestation rates, and a few metacercariae found in the fishes Carassius carassius and Cyprinus carpio in the reservoir and the stream. The majority of metacercariae was detected only on the scales of fishes. In order to know the infectivity and the distribution patterns in the intestine of hosts, rats and dogs were infected with the metacercariae obtained from O. bidens and Z. platypus. In addition the metacercariae obtained from Z. temmincki, P. esocinus and goldfish were given to the rats. The recovery rates of the worms in the small intestine of dogs were higher (63.3-65.8%) than those of the rats (3.5-31.6%). The flukes were found mostly in the middle and the lower part of small tntestine of the rats and the dogs, but no worm was collected in the upper part of the intestine of rats. The size of adult flukes varied by the hosts. In the adult flukes, oral sucker was smaller than ventral sucker, and the right and left testes were located diagonally, the uterine tubules circled around the upper left testis. The average egg size was 29.1 x 17.7 micro-meter. According to the above results, the flukes belonging to genus Metagonimus distributed along the Geum River was concluded to be identical with Miyata type of M. yokogawai as that Saito had proposed.
parasitology-helminth-trematoda ; Metagonimus sp. ; epidemiology ; cercaria ; metacercaria ; Zacco temmincki ; Zacco platypus ; Pseudogobio esocinus ; Opsariichtys bidens ; Carassius carassius ; Cyprinus carpio

: A study of infestation patterns for larval trematodes from fresh-water fish and brackish-water fish was carried out during the period from June to October in 1982. They were collected by netting, fishing with rod and line, and using the bait of crushed oil cake in a transparent plastic bowls at the three localities, Daebon-dong, Kugil-dong, and Hoam-dong in the river Taechong, Kyungpook Province, Korea. Five species of fresh-water fish, the crussian carp, Carassius carassius Linnaeus, the bullhead, Coreobagrus brevicorpus Mori, the fat minnow, Moroco oxycephalus (Bleeker), the flat bitterling, Paracheilognathus rhombea(Temminck et Schlegel), and the catfish, Parasilurus asotus (Linnaeus), and two kinds of brackish-water fish, the grey mullet, Mugil cephalus (Linnaeus) and the sweetfish, Plecoglossus altivelis (Temminck et Schlegel) were examined. Four species of the metacercariae, Exorchis oviformis, Metacercari hasegawai, Metorchis orientalis and undetermined larvae were found. Of these, the encysted larvae of the human intestinal fluke, Metagonimus yokogawai, were found from three kinds of fresh-water fish, the crussian carp, the bullhead and the fat minnow and one species of brackish-water fish, the sweetfish and the infestation rates for the larvae varied appreciably from fish to fish. The intensity of infestation with the Metagonimus larvae in the three species of fresh-water fish as low, and the average number of the larvae per gram of flesh varied from 0.5 to 0.2. By comparison, the brackish-water fish was more heavily infested and the mean number of cysts per gram of flesh in Plecoglossus altivelis was 109.2. It was found that infection with Metagonimus yokogawai is caused by consuming raw fresh-water fish and brackish-water fish caught in the river Taechong, Kyungpook Province, Korea.
parasitology-helminth-trematoda ; Metagonimus yokogawai ; Carassius carassius ; Coreobagrus brevicorpus ; Moroco oxycephalus ; Paracheilognathus rhombea ; Parasilurus asotus ; Mugil cephalus ; Plecoglossus altivelis ; epidemiology ; metacercaria

The present work which was investigated in July 1979, was to observe the wormicidal effects of the external mucous substances of 9 species of fresh water fishes (Cyprinus carpio, Parasilurus asotus, Anguilla japonica, Ophicephalus argus, Carassius carassius; golden crusian carp, Misgurnus anguillicaudatus, Zacco platypus, Pseudorasbora parva and Carassius carassius; crusian carp) on cercaria, liberated metacercaria and adult of Clonorchis sinensis. The mucous substances extracted by ether from the above 9 species of fishes were separated into many spots on the silica gel thin layer chromatography, and divided into many fractions in the silica gel column chromatography which used petroleum ether (30 percent) and chloroform (70 percent) as a solvent. On the silica gel thin layer chromatography of ether extracts from 9 species of fresh water fishes, each of the Rf. values which had wormicidal effect on the cercaria of C. sinensis were different from others; Rf. value of C. carassius (crusian carp) was 0.937, 0.709 in O. argus, 0.612 in A. japonica, 0.576 in P. asotus, 0.451 in C. carpio, 0.701 in Z. platypus, 0.385 in C. carassius(golden crusian carp) and 0.15 in P. parva. Time for wormicide was different from each other, too. It took 14 min. in a case of C. carassius(crusian carp), 25 min. in Z. platypus, 26 min. in C. carassius(golden crusian carp), 28 min. in C. carpio, 30 min. in P. asotus, 35 min. in O. argus, 40 min. P. parva and 180 min. in A. japonica. But any of the spots of M. anguillicaudatus did not show wormicidal effect on the cercaria within 10 hours. In the silica gel column chromatography of ether extracts from 9 species of fresh water fishes, the fractions which had wormicidal effect on the metacercaria of C. sienesis were different from each other; in a case of C. carassius(crusian carp), the first fraction only had wormicidal effect, the 2nd in P. asotus, the 3rd in O. argus, the 4th in C. carassius(golden crusian carp), the 2nd in C. carpio and the 4th in P. parva. Time for wormicide was 40 min. in C. carassius(crusian carp), 52 min. in P. asotus, 74 min. in C. carassius(golden crusian carp), 92 min. in O. argus, 95 min. in C. carpio and 140 min. in P. parva, but any of the fractions of A. japonicas, M. anguillicaudatus and Z. platypus did not show wormicidal effect within 10 hours. The fractions which had wormicidal effect on the metacercaria of C. sinensis had also the same effect on the adult, but it took longer time to kill them. It took 3 hours in a case of C. carassius(crusian carp), 4 hrs. in C. carassius(golden crusian carp), 5 hrs. in P. asotus, 6 hrs. and 6 min. in O. argus, 6 hrs. and 10 min. in C. carpio and half and 6 hrs. in P. parva. But any of the fractions of A. japonica, M. anguillicaudatus and Z. platypus did not show wormicidal effect within 24 hrs.
parasitology-helminth-trematoda ; Clonorchis sinensis ; mucous substance ; Cyprinus carpio ; Parasilurus asotus ; Anguilla japonica ; Ophicephalus argus ; Carassius carassius ; Misgurnus anguillicaudatus ; Zacco platypus ; Pseudorasbora parva

The prevalence of Centrocestus formosanus metacercariae was investigated in ornamental fish purchased from a pet shop in Chiang Mai, Thailand, including Carassius auratus (goldfish), Cyprinus carpio (Koi), Poecilia latipinna (Sailfin Molly), Danio rerio (Zebrafish), and Puntigrus tetrazona (Tiger barb). The parasite species was identified by the morphology of worms as well as by a molecular approach using ITS2. The results showed that 50 (33.3%) of 150 fish examined were infected with the metacercariae. The highest prevalence was found in C. auratus (83.3%), and the highest intensity was noted in C. carpio (70.8 metacercariae/fish). The most important morphological character was the presence of 32–34 circumoral spines on the oral sucker. The phylogenetic studies using the rRNA ITS2 region revealed that all the specimens of C. formosanus in this study were grouped together with C. formosanus in GenBank database. This is the first report on ornamental fish, C. carpio, P. latipinna, D. rerio, and P. tetrazona, taking the role of second intermediate hosts of C. formosanus in Thailand. Prevention and control of metacercarial infection in ornamental fish is urgently needed.
Carps ; Databases, Nucleic Acid ; Goldfish ; Metacercariae* ; Parasites ; Poecilia ; Prevalence* ; Spine ; Thailand* ; Zebrafish

The infection status of digenetic trematode metacercariae (DTM) was investigated in fishes from coastal lakes in Gangwon-do, the Republic of Korea (Korea). All fishes collected in 5 lakes were examined with the artificial digestion method. More than 10 species, i.e., Metagonimus spp., Pygidiopsis summa, Centrocestus armatus, Metorchis orientalis, M. taiwanensis, Clinostomum complanatum, Echinostoma spp., Stictodora spp., Diplostomum sp. and Diplostomid No. 1. by Morita (1960), of DTM were detected in fishes from 5 coastal lakes in Gangwon-do. Metagonimus spp. metacercariae were found in 52 (41.3%) out of 126 sea rundace, Tribolodon hakonensis, from 5 lakes, and their density was 14.6 per fish infected. P. summa metacercariae were detected in 48 (84.2%) out of 57 mullets from 5 lakes, and their density was 316 per fish infected. C. armatus metacercariae were detected in 7 (14.6%) T. hakonensis and 3 (15.0%) Tridentiger brevispinis from Hyang-ho, and 5 (19.2%) Acanthogobius flavimanus from Gyeongpo-ho. Stictodora spp. metacercariae were found in 4 fish species, i.e., Tridentiger obscurus, Tridentiger trigonocephalus, Chelon haematocheilus, and Acanthogobius lactipes, from Gyeongpo-ho. Total 15 C. complanatum metacercariae were detected in 2 (9.1%) crucian carp, Carassius auratus, from Songji-ho. M. taiwanensis metacercariae were found in T. hakonensis from Hyang-ho and Gyeongpo-ho and in Pseudorasbora parva from Gyeongpo-ho. Total 11 M. orientalis metacercariae were detected in 3 (6.3%) T. hakonensis from Hyang-ho. From the above results, it was confirmed that various species of DTM are infected in fishes from coastal lakes in Gangwon-do, Korea.
Carps ; Digestion ; Echinostoma ; Fishes ; Gangwon-do ; Goldfish ; Heterophyidae ; Korea ; Lakes ; Metacercariae ; Methods ; Republic of Korea ; Smegmamorpha

The present study was undertaken to determine the pattern of infestation with the encysted larvae of digenetic trematodes in freshwater fish collected in both the natural and fish breeding ponds in Kyungpook Province, Korea. The fish collected in the two natural ponds, Nass-chil, and Sa-il, and three fish breeding ponds, Deok-dong, Mo-gok, and Seongryu-tunnel, were examined from July 1980 to August 1981. The data were compared with the results obtained from freshwater fish caught in the river Kumho by Hwang and Choi(1980). Ten species of fish caught in the ponds were examined for the presence of the larval trematodes. Seven species of the larvae, Clonorchis sinensis, Cyathocotyle orientalis, Echinochasmus species, Exorchis oviformis, Metacercaria hasegawai, Metagonimus yokogawai, and Metorchis orientails and two kinds of undetermined cyst A and B were found. The infestitation rate for Clonorchis sinensis metacercaria in the Korean shiner, Gnathopogon atromaculatus collected in the natural ponds was higher than the rate in the river Kumho by Hwang and Choi(1980), but lower in the fish collected in the breeding ponds. By contrast, the infestation rate in the flat bitterling, Paracheilognathus rhombea in ponds was higher, while there was no change of the rate in the southern top-mouthed minnow, Pseudorasbora parva. The intensity of infestation, expressed as the average number of Clonorchis sinensis metacercaria per gram of flesh, were lower than in the bullhead, Coreobagrus brevicorpus, and Gnathopogon atromaculatus in the ponds in 1981. The intensity was higher in Paracheilognathus rhombea, but no fluctuation in the intensity of infestation in Pseudorasbora parva was observed. The infestation rates and densities for the encysted larvae of digenetic trematodes except for Clonorchis sinensis varied from fish to fish. However, it was found that the rate and intensity of the larval trematodes from all the fish in the ponds was lower than from those in the rivers in Kyungpook Province, Korea.
parasitology-helminth-trematoda ; Clonorchis sinensis ; Cyathocotyle orientalis ; Echinochasmus species ; Exorchis oviformis ; Metacercaria hasegawai ; Metagonimus yokogawai ; Metorchis orientails ; Pseudorasbora parva ; Coreobagrus brevicorpus ; Gnathopogon atromaculatus ; Paracheilognathus rhombea ; Carassius carassius ; Coreoperca herzi ; Cyprinus carpio ; Lipomis macrochirus ; Moroco oxycephalus ; Zacco platypus ; epidemiology

Cercariae of Clonorchis sinensis were attempted to penetrate into various fry of fresh water fishes in order to examine the conditions of infection and the further development in the fish. The following conclusions were made. Cercariae of C. sinensis penetrated into the muscle of the fry of Pseudorasbora parva were found to be able to develop. Cercariae penetrated into the fry of Pseudorasbora parva migrated into the organs of the fry to kill their host. From each dead individual of P. parva, more than 10 larvae of C. sinensis could be discovered. Cercariae attached on the Cyprinus carpio, Carassius and gold fish were almost killed before penetration into the body and even one or two cercariae penetrated were also killed as time passed. Cercariae of C. sinensis infected on the fry of Cyprinus Carpio, Carassius auratus and gold fish could not survive more than 60 days. Cercariae penetrated into Cyprinus carpio and Carassius auratus could not develop into complete metacercariae even after 3O days. Cercariae of Clonorchis sinensis penetrated into the fry of Aplocheilus latipes were killed within 10 hours and the cercariae attached on the caudal fin were destroyed in 2 hours. It was found that no cercariae of Clonorchis sinensis could penetrate into the body of the fry of Misgurnus anguillicaudatus.
parasitology-helminth-trematoda-Clonorchis sinensis ; cercariae ; Pseudorasbora parva ; Cyprinus carpio ; Carassius auratus ; gold fish ; Aplocheilus latipes ; Misgurnus anguillicaudatus ; mucous substance