Table. Cestode species identified in patient fecal samples, Japan, 2001–2016.
Species | No. samples |
Total, no. (%)† | |
---|---|---|---|
Proglottid (no.)* | Egg | ||
Diphyllobothrium nihonkaiense | 526 (153) | 299 | 825 (86.1) |
Diplogonoporus balaenopterae | 32 (8) | 0 | 32 (3.3) |
Spirometra spp. | 2 | 0 | 2 (0.2) |
Taenia spp. |
72 (18) |
27 |
99 (10.3) |
Total | 632 (179) | 326 | 958 (100) |
*Number in parentheses indicates the number examined by molecular analysis during 2012–2016. †Numbers do not add up to 100% because of rounding.