title: [Gnathostomiasis].
abstract: Gnathostomiasis is an helminthic zoonotic disease endemic in Asia, mainly in Southeastern Asia, and Latin America, that has been increasingly reported in travelers returning from these areas. It is due to the consumption of raw or insufficiently cooked meat (chiken, snakes), frogs or fish, contaminated with larvae of the gender Gnathostoma. Gnathostomiasis includes a great variety of clinical manifestations caused by cutaneous and/or visceral larva migrans syndrome. We present here parasitological, epidemiological, clinical and therapeutic aspect of the disease.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Parasitologie et Mycologie, INSERM U399, Faculté de Médecine, 27 Bd. Jean Moulin, 13385 Marseille Cedex 5, France. philippe.parola@medecine.univ-mrs.fr
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Parola
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Caumes
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D006039:Gnathostoma; D006801:Humans; D017205:Spirurida Infections / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000469:parasitology