[Infection status of wild freshwater fish with Metacercariae of Clonorchis sinensis in west Liaoning].

A total of 1131 wild freshwater fishes were collected from Nver River, Gou River and Liao River in the west region of Liaoning Province, and examined for metacercariae by direct compression and artificial digestion (pepsin-HCl) method. All the 6 species fishes were infected by Clonorchis sinensis. The highest prevalence (82.8%, 216/261) were found in Pseudorasbora parva and the lowest (1.5%, 2/137) in Phoxinus lagowskii. The highest intensity of infection (2390 per fish) was in Perccottus glehnidybowski and the lowest (30 per fish) in Phoxinus lagorwskii.