title: First report of human infection with Gynaecotyla squatarolae and first Korean record of Haplorchis pumilio in a patient.
abstract: Gynaecotyla squatarolae (Digenea: Microphallidae) is a minute intestinal trematode whose natural hosts are aves. We conducted a feces screening survey in a coastal village of Muan-gun, where the residents routinely consume brackish water crabs as a food. Through this survey, a 50-year-old female was found to shed gymnophallid and heterophyid eggs in her stool, and 845 adult flukes were collected from her purged stool. The adult worms were morphologically grouped into three species. A total of 841 worms were Gymnophalloides seoi. Three worms were identified as G. squatarolae, and the last one proven to be Haplorchis pumilio. This is the first worldwide report of G. squatarolae infection in humans, and the first H. pumilio infection in Korean people.
authors.affiliation: Division of Ecology and Environment, Chungnam Development Institute, Gongju-si, Geumheung-dong 101, 314-140, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Ok-Sik
authors.initials: OS
authors.lastname: Chung
authors.forename: Hye-Jung
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Yoo-Me
authors.initials: YM
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Woon-Mok
authors.initials: WM
authors.lastname: Sohn
authors.forename: Sahng-June
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Kwak
authors.forename: Min
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Seo
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D044466:Asian People; D003386:Brachyura / Q000469:parasitology; D005243:Feces / Q000469:parasitology*; D005260:Female; D005517:Foodborne Diseases / Q000469:parasitology*; D006578:Heterophyidae / Q000145:classification / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D010270:Parasite Egg Count; D056910:Republic of Korea; D014201:Trematode Infections / Q000469:parasitology*