Acute Small-Bowel Obstruction From Intestinal Anisakiasis After the Ingestion of Raw Clams; Documenting a New Method of Marine-to-Human Parasitic Transmission.
Enteric anisakiasis is a known parasitic infection. To date, human infection has been reported as resulting from the inadvertent ingestion of the anisakis larvae when eating raw/undercooked fish, squid, or eel. We present a first reported case of intestinal obstruction caused by anisakiasis, after the ingestion of raw clams.
Department of Surgery , Thomas Jefferson University Hospital , Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Ehyal
E
Shweiki
Department of Surgery , Thomas Jefferson University Hospital , Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
David W
DW
Rittenhouse
Department of Surgery , Tulane University , New Orleans, Louisiana.
Joana E
JE
Ochoa
Department of Surgery , Thomas Jefferson University Hospital , Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Viren P
VP
Punja
Department of Surgery , Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania , Philadelphia.
Muhammad H
MH
Zubair
Department of Pathology, Anatomy, and Cell Biology , Thomas Jefferson University Hospital , Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Jeffrey P
JP
Baliff
anisakiasis; clams; small-bowel obstruction