| When a fish eats the crustacean, the larva is transformed in a plerocercoid larva in the gut and muscles of the fish. |
| Cooking at 55°C for five minutes, freezing for 8 to 72 hours according to the thickness of the fish, and dry salting for several days will kill plerocercoid larvae. |
| The finding of plerocercoid larvae of Diphyllobothriidae Luhe, 1910 in Peruvian sea fish. |
| A predatory fish can also be contaminated, if it's able to become an intermediate host, by eating a prey fish parasited by plerocercoid larva. |
| Accordingly, the route of plerocercoid infection for humans in Henan Province differs from that in southern China. |
| The plerocercoid larvae in the fish muscles are easily missed during food preparation. |
