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Opisthorchis viverrini
adult Opisthorchis viverrini
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Platyhelminthes
Class:	Trematoda
Subclass:	Digenea
Order:	Opisthorchiata
Family:	Opisthorchiidae
Genus:	Opisthorchis
Species:	O. viverrini
Binomial name
Opisthorchis viverrini Stiles & Hassal, 1896

Opisthorchis viverrini, common name Southeast Asian liver fluke, is a trematode parasite that attacks the area of the bile duct. Opisthorchis viverrini infection predisposes for cholangiocarcinoma, a cancer of the gall bladder and/or its ducts.

Opisthorchis viverrini is found mainly in northeast Thailand, Laos, and Kampuchea.

Life cycle of Opisthorchis

Intermediate hosts include freshwater snails of the genus Bithynia.^[1]

References

External links

• http://www.dpd.cdc.gov/dpdx/HTML/opisthorchiasis.htm
• http://www.stanford.edu/group/parasites/ParaSites2003/Opisthorchiasis/home.htm
• http://www.stanford.edu/group/parasites/ParaSites2003/Opisthorchiasis/morph.htm
• http://www.stanford.edu/group/parasites/ParaSites2003/Opisthorchiasis/epi.htm
• http://www.dpd.cdc.gov/dpdx/HTML/opisthorchiasis.htm
• http://www.stanford.edu/group/parasites/ParaSites2003/Opisthorchiasis/life.htm
• http://www.stanford.edu/group/parasites/ParaSites2003/Opisthorchiasis/clinical.htm
• http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18205254?ordinalpos=1&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_DiscoveryPanel.Pubmed_Discovery_RA&linkpos=1&log$=relatedreviews&logdbfrom=pubmed
• http://www.stanford.edu/group/parasites/ParaSites2003/Opisthorchiasis/public.htm
• http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2772709