Acknowledgement
We appreciate the staff in the National Center for Parasitology, Entomology and Malaria Control, Ministry of Health, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, who helped this survey. This work was supported by the Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Korea Association of Health Promotion, Seoul, South Korea.
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