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Discovery of Eurytrema Eggs in Sediment from a Colonial Period Latrine in Taiwan
In this study we take a closer look at the diseases that afflicted Japanese police officers who were stationed in a remote mountainous region of Taiwan from 1921 to 1944. Samples were taken from the latrine at the Huabanuo police outpost, and analyzed for the eggs of intestinal parasites, using micr...
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The Korean Society for Parasitology and Tropical Medicine
2019
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6960245/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31914510 http://dx.doi.org/10.3347/kjp.2019.57.6.595 |
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author | Yeh, Hui-Yuan Cheng, Chieh-fu Jeff Huang, ChingJung Zhan, Xiaoya Wong, Weng Kin Mitchell, Piers D. |
author_facet | Yeh, Hui-Yuan Cheng, Chieh-fu Jeff Huang, ChingJung Zhan, Xiaoya Wong, Weng Kin Mitchell, Piers D. |
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description | In this study we take a closer look at the diseases that afflicted Japanese police officers who were stationed in a remote mountainous region of Taiwan from 1921 to 1944. Samples were taken from the latrine at the Huabanuo police outpost, and analyzed for the eggs of intestinal parasites, using microscopy and ELISA. The eggs of Eurytrema sp., (possibly E. pancreaticum), whipworm and roundworm were shown to be present. True infection with Eurytrema would indicate that the policemen ate uncooked grasshoppers and crickets infected with the parasite. However, false parasitism might also occur if the policemen ate the uncooked intestines of infected cattle, and the Eurytrema eggs passed through the human intestines. These findings provide an insight into the diet and health of the Japanese colonists in Taiwan nearly a century ago. |
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spelling | pubmed-69602452020-01-22 Discovery of Eurytrema Eggs in Sediment from a Colonial Period Latrine in Taiwan Yeh, Hui-Yuan Cheng, Chieh-fu Jeff Huang, ChingJung Zhan, Xiaoya Wong, Weng Kin Mitchell, Piers D. Korean J Parasitol Brief Communication In this study we take a closer look at the diseases that afflicted Japanese police officers who were stationed in a remote mountainous region of Taiwan from 1921 to 1944. Samples were taken from the latrine at the Huabanuo police outpost, and analyzed for the eggs of intestinal parasites, using microscopy and ELISA. The eggs of Eurytrema sp., (possibly E. pancreaticum), whipworm and roundworm were shown to be present. True infection with Eurytrema would indicate that the policemen ate uncooked grasshoppers and crickets infected with the parasite. However, false parasitism might also occur if the policemen ate the uncooked intestines of infected cattle, and the Eurytrema eggs passed through the human intestines. These findings provide an insight into the diet and health of the Japanese colonists in Taiwan nearly a century ago. The Korean Society for Parasitology and Tropical Medicine 2019-12 2019-12-31 /pmc/articles/PMC6960245/ /pubmed/31914510 http://dx.doi.org/10.3347/kjp.2019.57.6.595 Text en Copyright © 2019 by The Korean Society for Parasitology and Tropical Medicine This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Brief Communication Yeh, Hui-Yuan Cheng, Chieh-fu Jeff Huang, ChingJung Zhan, Xiaoya Wong, Weng Kin Mitchell, Piers D. Discovery of Eurytrema Eggs in Sediment from a Colonial Period Latrine in Taiwan |
title | Discovery of Eurytrema Eggs in Sediment from a Colonial Period Latrine in Taiwan |
title_full | Discovery of Eurytrema Eggs in Sediment from a Colonial Period Latrine in Taiwan |
title_fullStr | Discovery of Eurytrema Eggs in Sediment from a Colonial Period Latrine in Taiwan |
title_full_unstemmed | Discovery of Eurytrema Eggs in Sediment from a Colonial Period Latrine in Taiwan |
title_short | Discovery of Eurytrema Eggs in Sediment from a Colonial Period Latrine in Taiwan |
title_sort | discovery of eurytrema eggs in sediment from a colonial period latrine in taiwan |
topic | Brief Communication |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6960245/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31914510 http://dx.doi.org/10.3347/kjp.2019.57.6.595 |
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