• Parasites, Hosts and Diseases
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• v.28 no.4
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• pp.253-256
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• 1990

This study was performed to observe the infection status of sweetfish, caught from Kwangjung- stream and Namdae-stream in Yangyang-gun, Kangwon-do in August 1989, with the metacercariae of Metagonimus yokogawai. All of 28 sweetish from Kwangjung-stream were infected with the metacercariae of M. yokogawai. The number of metacercariae in a fish ranked 89-521(224 on average), and the number of larvae/g of mesh was 12-55(22 on average). On the other hand, no metacercariae were detected in the fish from Namdae-stream. It has been confirmed that the Kwangjung-stream in Yangyang-gun, Kangwon·do is one of the endemic foci of metagonimiasis in Korea.