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Clonorchis sinensis infections are endemic in Japan, Korea, Vietnam, and China. In addition to infecting humans, Clonorchis can also infect dogs and cats. Opisthorchis felineus, a closely related species of trematode that infects various carnivores including humans, occurs throughout the Philippines, India, Japan, Vietnam, and eastern Europe, particularly Poland and western Russia. O. viverini is found in northern Thailand1 and in Laos.2 The biology, pathogenesis, and clinical disease of all three species are so similar that only C. sinensis is discussed here.
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Despommier, D.D., Gwadz, R.W., Hotez, P.J. (1995). Clonorchis sinensis (Loos 1907). In: Parasitic Diseases. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2476-1_19
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