Discovery of Eurytrema eggs in sediment from a colonial period latrine in Taiwan

• Main Authors: Yeh, Hui-Yuan, Cheng, Jeff Chieh-fu, Huang, Ching Jung, Zhan, Xiaoya, Wong, Weng Kin, Mitchell, Piers D.
• Other Authors: School of Humanities
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Humanities::General; Eurytrema; Colonial Period Latrine
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/145009
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In this study we take a closer look at the diseases that afflicted Japanese police officers who were stationed in a remote mountainous region of Taiwan from 1921 to 1944. Samples were taken from the latrine at the Huabanuo police outpost, and analyzed for the eggs of intestinal parasites, using micr...