%0 Journal Article %T Infecci¨®n por helmintos par¨¢sitos en salm¨®n coho, Oncorhynchus kisutch, durante su retorno al r¨ªo Simpson, Chile %A Torres %A Patricio %A Aedo %A Eduardo %A Figueroa %A Luis %A Siegmund %A In¨¦s %A Silva %A Ricardo %A Navarrete %A Nancy %A Puga %A Sonia %A Mar¨ªn %A Francisco %A Aedo %A Elba %J Bolet¨ªn chileno de parasitolog¨ªa %D 2000 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %R 10.4067/S0365-94022000000100009 %X between may and july 1994, 17 adult returning salmons, oncorhynchus kisutch, were collected in the river simpson, chile. all fishes showed infection by plerocercoids of diphyllobothrium sp. in different locations: stomach, spleen, liver, mesenteries and gonads. infection with larval cestodes of an unidentified species of phillobothriidae was determined in the intestine of seven (41.2%) salmons and its prevalences of infection showed significant differences between female and male salmons. the 94.4% of total plerocercoids of diphyllobothrium were isolated from the stomach wall. prevalence and mean intensity of infection by diphyllobothrium sp. did not show significant difference between fishes of different sex. %K cestodes %K larvae %K coho salmon. %U http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0365-94022000000100009&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en