Human gnathostomiasis.
Two patients became infested with Gnathostoma nipponicum after eating raw loach-fish they had caught in a rice field in central Japan. A fragment of Gnathostoma was found in a biopsy from one of them. The sera of both patients reacted with Gnathostoma antigen using indirect immunofluorescence. Scanning electron microscopy was performed on blocks of the paraffin-embedded parasite sample and the viscera of a fish from the same rice field. The risk of eating raw freshwater fish is discussed.
Taniguchi
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Y
Department of Dermatology, Mie University School of Medicine, Tsu, Japan.
Hashimoto
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K
Ichikawa
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S
Shimizu
M
M
Ando
K
K
Kotani
Y
Y
D000818:Animals; D003531:Cypriniformes / Q000469:parasitology*; D006039:Gnathostoma / Q000302:isolation & purification* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D008297:Male; D008855:Microscopy, Electron, Scanning; D008875:Middle Aged; D009349:Nematode Infections / Q000473:pathology*; D012876:Skin Diseases, Parasitic / Q000469:parasitology* / Q000473:pathology