title: Human gnathostomiasis.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Dermatology, Mie University School of Medicine, Tsu, Japan.
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Taniguchi
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hashimoto
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ichikawa
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Shimizu
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ando
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kotani
mesh_terms: 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