Food Hygienic Studies on Anisakis Larva-II

Endoscopic capture of Anisakis larva (a video demonstration).

1 of 1 DESCRIPTION A 49-year-old Japanese man presented to the hospital with a 3-day history of abrupt-onset sharp epigastric pain. He reported that he had eaten raw salmon and mackerel at a sushi restaurant about 6 h before developing epigastralgia. He did not have nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea, melena, haematemesis, fever or chills. Vital signs were normal except for tachycardia (pulse rate 100...

Studies on crude drugs effective on visceral larva migrans. II. Larvicidal principles in kaempferiae rhizoma.

Acute intestinal anisakiasis in Spain: a fourth-stage Anisakis simplex larva.

A case of acute intestinal anisakiasis has been reported; a nematode larva being found in the submucosa of the ileum of a woman in Jaén (Spain). The source of infection was the ingestion of raw Engraulis encrasicholus. On the basis of its morphology, the worm has been identified as a fourth-stage larva of Anisakis simplex. In Spain, this is the ninth report of human anisakiasis and also probabl...

Cross-reactivity between Anisakis simplex sensitization and visceral larva migrans by Toxocara canis.

The aim of this work was to study cross-reactivity in the diagnosis of two related ascaridosis. Nineteen patients diagnosed with recidivous acute urticaria (RAU) caused by Anisakis simplex and 26 patients diagnosed with visceral larva migrans (VLM) caused by Toxocara canis were studied employing commercial diagnostic kits and "in house" assay kits. Cross-reactivity observed was greater when usi...

Hygienic food to reduce pathogen risk to bumblebees.

Bumblebees are ecologically and economically important pollinators, and the value of bumblebees for crop pollination has led to the commercial production and exportation/importation of colonies on a global scale. Commercially produced bumblebee colonies can carry with them infectious parasites, which can both reduce the health of the colonies and spillover to wild bees, with potentially serious...