The Occurrence of Echinococcus multilocularis Leuckart, 1863, in Japan

Authors

Robert L. Rausch, Arctic Health Research CenterFollow
Jiro Yamashita, Hokkaido University

Date of this Version

7-1957

Comments

Published in the Proceedings of the Helminthological Society of Washington (July 1957) v. 24, no. 2.

Abstract

Since 1937, when alveolar hydatid disease was first recognized on the Japanese island of Rebun, 25 cases have been investigated clinically. About one percent of the population of the island is believed to be infected. (Yamashita et al., 1955). Five cases also have been reported from other islands, some of these involving emigrants from Rebun (Inukai et al., 1955; Yamashita, 1956).