title: Intestinal capillariasis from Maha Sarakham Province, northeast Thailand: report of a case.
abstract: Intestinal capillariasis cases in Thailand were reported from the areas where people customarily ate raw freshwater fish. The present case came from Maha-Sarakham Province, Northeast of Thailand with the chief complaint of diarrhoea for one month. Eggs, larvae and adult Capillaria philippinensis were found in the faeces. The authors observed that protein-losing enteropathy was an early manifestation on this disease.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002195:Capillaria; D005243:Feces / Q000469:parasitology; D006801:Humans; D007411:Intestinal Diseases, Parasitic / Q000209:etiology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009349:Nematode Infections / Q000209:etiology*; D013785:Thailand