Liver fluke infections by Amphimerus sp. (Digenea: Opisthorchiidae) in definitive and fish intermediate hosts in Manabí province, Ecuador.

• Hauptverfasser: Daniel Romero-Alvarez (Verfasst von), Gabriela Valverde-Muñoz (Verfasst von), Manuel Calvopina (Verfasst von), Maira Rojas (Verfasst von), William Cevallos (Verfasst von), Hideo Kumazawa (Verfasst von), Hidekazu Takagi (Verfasst von), Hiromu Sugiyama (Verfasst von)
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• Veröffentlicht: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2020-06-01T00:00:00Z.
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Amphimerus sp. is a fluke that dwells in the biliary tracts of vertebrate definitive hosts including humans, domestic, and wild mammals in Latin America. Opisthorchiid liver infections are rarely studied in the Americas confirming its status as a neglected tropical disease. In Ecuador, small tremato...