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Human gnathostomiasis
Author(s) -
Taniguchi Y.,
Hashimoto K.,
Ichikawa S.,
Shimizu M.,
Ando K.,
Kotani Y.
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
journal of cutaneous pathology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.597
H-Index - 75
eISSN - 1600-0560
pISSN - 0303-6987
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0560.1991.tb00137.x
Subject(s) - parasite hosting , biology , fish <actinopterygii> , immunofluorescence , pathology , freshwater fish , veterinary medicine , medicine , antibody , fishery , immunology , world wide web , computer science
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.