Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand.
Tropical Medicine Graduate Program, Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand; WHO Collaborating Centre for Research and Control of Opisthorchiasis (Southeast Asian Liver Fluke Disease), Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand.
Adv Parasitol. 2018;101:41-67. doi: 10.1016/bs.apar.2018.05.002. Epub 2018 May 29.
Opisthorchiasis in the Lower Mekong Subregion is a parasitic disease caused by the liver fluke Opisthorchis viverrini. This parasite has a well-documented distribution in Thailand, Lao PDR, Cambodia, Myanmar and Southern Vietnam. In this chapter, we describe the current knowledge of the epidemiology of O. viverrini infection, highlighting advances in control efforts made in the last four decades in Thailand and identifying ongoing gaps in our epidemiological knowledge which need to be filled to support efforts to permanently overcome the heavy morbidity and mortality burden caused by these parasites within their endemic regions.
湄公河下游地区的肝吸虫病是一种由肝吸虫引起的寄生虫病。这种寄生虫在泰国、老挝人民民主共和国、柬埔寨、缅甸和越南南部有明确的分布。在本章中，我们描述了 O. viverrini 感染的流行病学现状，强调了过去四十年中在泰国进行的控制工作的进展，并确定了我们在流行病学知识方面存在的差距，需要填补这些差距，以支持在这些寄生虫流行地区永久克服由这些寄生虫引起的沉重发病率和死亡率负担的努力。
