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Gastric Anisakiasis in Japan - Epidemiology, Diagnosis, Treatment (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1989)
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Gastric Anisakiasis in Japan - Epidemiology, Diagnosis, Treatment (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1989)
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The larvae of Anisakis, whose adult form lives on sea mammals such
as whales, seals, and dolphins, are parasitic upon many species of
salt-water fish. When the final host animals eat paratenic hosts,
the larvae grow to adulthood in the hosts' stomach. However, when
hu mans eat these infested fish, the larvae die instead, causing a
disease called anisakiasis. In 1960, in the Netherlands, van Thiel
et al. found a worm in the intestinal wall of a patient who had
eaten raw herring and had suffered symptoms of acute abdomen. The
impact of this report was tremendous among Japanese parasitologists
because of the Japanese habit of eating raw fish. In 1964, the
Special Research Group from the Ministry of Education was
established to investigate the disease, stimulating progress in the
study of anisakiasis. Three types of worm, Anisakis simplex larva
(previously known as Anisakis larva type I), Anisakis physeteris
larva (Anisakis larva type II), and Pseudoterranova decipiens larva
type A, are believed to cause anisakiasis. As many as 165 kinds of
fish and squid in the seas near Japan are hosts to Anisakis
simplex, and 9 species are hosts to Pseudoterranova decipiens
larvae. Contra caecum has experimentally been observed to invade
the gastrointestinal tract, but no infection by this larva has been
reported in humans. A case of infection by Pseudoterranova
decipiens type B has been described. In Japan, the name Terranova
decipiens (Shiraki 1974) has been adopted instead of Phocanema
decipiens (Mozgovoi 1953)."
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