Host Switching of Zoonotic Broad Fish Tapeworm (Dibothriocephalus latus) to Salmonids, Patagonia.

ABSTRACT: Diphyllobothriosis is a reemerging zoonotic disease because of global trade and increased popularity of eating raw fish. We present molecular evidence of host switching of a human-infecting broad fish tapeworm, Dibothriocephalus latus, and use of salmonids as intermediate or paratenic hosts and thus a source of human infection in South America.

SUBMITTER: Kuchta R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6810218 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature