Table 5.
In vivo viability test results of egg inocula and the recovered eggs after spiking and washing 300 g of lettuce with different numbers of sodium hypochlorite resistant (SHR) eggs of mixed Echinococcus multilocularis and Taenia polyacantha (inoculum 1) and E. multilocularis eggs only (inoculum 2).
| Egg Suspensions |
Echinococcus multilocularis and Taenia polyacantha Eggs (Inoculum 1) |
E. multilocularis Eggs (Inoculum 2) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| # Eggs | In Vivo Development 1 | # Eggs | In Vivo Development 1 | |
| Inoculum | 40 | 5/5 | 60 | 5/5 |
| 10 | 2/5 | 20 | 2/5 | |
| 2 | 2/5 | 10 | 1/5 | |
| Recovered after spiking/washing | 20 | 0/5 | 120 | 1/5 |
| 4 | 1/5 | 40 | 0/5 | |
| - | - | 20 | 1/5 | |
1 PCR of metacestode material positive for E. multilocularis.