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Case Reports
. 1991 Apr;18(2):112-5.
doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0560.1991.tb00137.x.

Human gnathostomiasis

Y Taniguchi  1 , K Hashimoto, S Ichikawa, M Shimizu, K Ando, Y Kotani
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Case Reports

Human gnathostomiasis

Y Taniguchi et al. J Cutan Pathol. 1991 Apr.

Abstract

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.

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    Chesney TM. Chesney TM. J Cutan Pathol. 1991 Apr;18(2):65-6. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0560.1991.tb00129.x. J Cutan Pathol. 1991. PMID: 1856344 No abstract available.

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