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Echinostoma mekongi: Discovery of Its Metacercarial Stage in Snails, Filopaludina martensi cambodjensis, in Pursat Province, Cambodia
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Echinostoma mekongi: Discovery of Its Metacercarial Stage in Snails, Filopaludina martensi cambodjensis, in Pursat Province, Cambodia

The Korean Journal of Parasitology 2021;59(1):47-53.
Published online: February 19, 2021

1Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Korea Association of Health Promotion, Seoul 07649, Korea

2Department of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul 03080, Korea

3Department of Parasitology and Tropical Medicine, and Institute of Health Sciences, Gyeongsang National University College of Medicine, Jinju 52727, Korea

4National Center for Parasitology, Entomology and Malaria Control, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

*Corresponding authors (cjy@snu.ac.kr; wmsohn@gnu.ac.kr)
• Received: December 23, 2020   • Revised: January 16, 2021   • Accepted: January 16, 2021

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Fig. 1 (A) Filopaludina martensi cambodjensis snails purchased from a local market in Pursat Province, Cambodia. (B) A metacercaria of Echinostoma mekongi isolated from a F. martensi cambodjensis snail. Scale bar=30 μm.
Fig. 2 Echinostoma mekongi adult worms obtained from an experimental hamster at day 20 post-infection. (A) An adult fluke showing the head collar (HC), oral (OS) and ventral suckers (VS), uterus (U) filled with eggs, ovary (OV), globular testes (T), and vitelline follicles (VF). Ventral view. Unstained. Scale bar=0.1 mm. (B, C) Other worms showing the same organs in Fig. 2A. Note the 2 globular (B) or slightly lobulated testes (C) and non-confluent vitellaria beyond the testicular field (B, C). Ventral view. Stained with Semichon’s acetocarmine followed by clearing in glycerin-alcohol and mounting in glycerin-jelly. Scale bar=0.1 mm (B, C). (D, E) Light microscopic (D) and scanning electron microscopic (E) views of the head collar with collar spines. Note the 2 alternating rows of the dorsal collar spines. Dorsal views. Scale bars=100 μm (D, E).
Fig. 3 A phylogenetic tree of Echinostoma mekongi in comparison with 5 other 37-collar-spined Echinostoma spp. constructed based on 247 bp of mitochondrial cox1 sequences. Our sample (●, MW199181), from Pursat Province, is clustered with E. mekongi isolates from Kratie Province, Cambodia.
Fig. 4 A phylogenetic tree of Echinostoma mekongi in comparison with 5 other 37-collar-spined Echinostoma spp. constructed based on 348 bp of mitochondrial nad1 sequences. Our sample (●, MW199735), from Pursat Province, is clustered with E. mekongi isolates from Kratie and Takeo Provinces, Cambodia.
Echinostoma mekongi: Discovery of Its Metacercarial Stage in Snails, Filopaludina martensi cambodjensis, in Pursat Province, Cambodia

Comparison of our sample with Echinostoma mekongi from Kratie, Cambodia and other members of 37-collar-spined Echinostoma spp. based on cox1 and nad1 gene sequences

cox1 nad1


Our samplea Our samplea
Echinostoma mekongi (MT449688; Kratie Province) 100.0 Echinostoma mekongi (MT431430; Kratie Province) 99.7

Echinostoma mekongi (MT449681; Kratie Province) 99.0 Echinostoma mekongi (MT431425; Kratie Province) 98.9

Echinostoma caproni (AF025830) 92.6 Echinostoma paraulum (KP065680) 89.1

Echinostoma trivolvis (GQ463003) 91.7 Echinostoma cinetorchis (KU519289) 87.5

Echinostoma revolutum American lineage (GQ463020) 91.7 Echinostoma revolutum American lineage (GQ463056) 86.8

Echinostoma revolutum Southeast Asian lineage (GU324945) 91.2 Echinostoma novaezealandense (KY436399) 86.2

Echinostoma miyagawai (KP455602) 90.5 Echinostoma revolutum Eurasian lineage (KC618453) 86.2

aOur sample was an adult fluke recovered from an experimental hamster infected with the metacercariae from Filopaludina martensi cambodjensis snails at day 20 post-infection.

Table 1 Comparison of our sample with Echinostoma mekongi from Kratie, Cambodia and other members of 37-collar-spined Echinostoma spp. based on cox1 and nad1 gene sequences

Our sample was an adult fluke recovered from an experimental hamster infected with the metacercariae from Filopaludina martensi cambodjensis snails at day 20 post-infection.