Department of Anatomy, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul 03080, Korea.
Department of Parasitology, Dankook University College of Medicine, Cheonan 31116, Korea.
Parasites Hosts Dis. 2023 May;61(2):198-201. doi: 10.3347/PHD.23013. Epub 2023 May 23.
In the past decade, experts have conducted parasitological research on archaeological specimens in Korea to collect historical parasite infection data. In these studies, parasitologists successfully described the infection pattern of each parasite species in history. However, in the first half of the 20th century, archaeoparasitological reports have been scant. In 2021, we conducted a parasitological examination of a toilet-like structure that emerged in the early 20th century. This structure was built by stacking 2 wooden barrels; and in the study samples, we found ancient Trichuris trichiura, Ascaris lumbricoides (unfertilized), and Taenia spp. eggs and therefore proposed a higher possibility that the barrels could have been used as a toilet at the time. To understand how the antihelminthic campaign since the 1960s helped reduce parasite infection rates in Korea, more research should focus on early-20th-century toilet ruins.
在过去的十年中，专家们对韩国的考古标本进行了寄生虫学研究，以收集历史寄生虫感染数据。在这些研究中，寄生虫学家成功地描述了历史上每种寄生虫的感染模式。然而，在 20 世纪上半叶，考古寄生虫学报告却很少见。2021 年，我们对 20 世纪初出现的一种类似厕所的结构进行了寄生虫学检查。这个结构是由两个木桶堆叠而成的；在研究样本中，我们发现了古老的 Trichuris trichiura、Ascaris lumbricoides（未受精）和 Taenia spp. 卵，因此提出了更高的可能性，即这些木桶在当时可能被用作厕所。为了了解自 20 世纪 60 年代以来的驱虫运动如何帮助降低韩国的寄生虫感染率，应该更多地关注 20 世纪早期的厕所遗址。
