Open AccessAnisakiasis in Southeast Asia: A story of new tropical disease?
Author(s) -
Somsri Wiwanitkit,
Viroj Wiwanitkit
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
asian pacific journal of tropical biomedicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.507
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 2588-9222
pISSN - 2221-1691
DOI - 10.1016/j.apjtb.2015.11.011
Subject(s) - tropical disease , southeast asia , tropical medicine , geography , south asia , neglected tropical diseases , tropics , disease , medicine , socioeconomics , ancient history , biology , history , ecology , pathology , sociology
Anisakiasis is an important worm infestation. It is seen in some non-tropical countries and becomes an important issue in coastal medicine. However, in the few recent years, there are some reports on occurrence of anisakiasis in tropical countries. In this specific short article, the authors review and present the situation of anisakiasis in Southeast Asia. It can be said that anisakiasis becomes a new focused interest in tropical coastal medicine at present