Human gnathostomiasis: a neglected food-borne zoonosis

GH Liu, MM Sun, HM Elsheikha, YT Fu, H Sugiyama… - Parasites & vectors, 2020 - Springer
Background Human gnathostomiasis is a food-borne zoonosis. Its etiological agents are the
third-stage larvae of Gnathostoma spp. Human gnathostomiasis is often reported in …

Gnathostomiasis: an emerging infection of raw fish consumers in Gnathostoma nematode-endemic and nonendemic countries

JH Diaz - Journal of Travel Medicine, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Background Gnathostomiasis, a helminthic infection commonly reported in Southeast Asia
and Latin America, may follow consumption of raw seafood infected with muscle-encysted …

Human neural larva migrans caused by ophidascaris robertsi ascarid

ME Hossain, KJ Kennedy, HL Wilson… - Emerging Infectious …, 2023 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
We describe a case in Australia of human neural larva migrans caused by the ascarid
Ophidascaris robertsi, for which Australian carpet pythons are definitive hosts. We made the …

An overview of fish-borne nematodiases among returned travelers for recent 25 years–unexpected diseases sometimes far away from the origin

JC Eiras, GC Pavanelli… - The Korean journal of …, 2018 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Along with globalization of traveling and trading, fish-borne nematodiases seems to be
increasing in number. However, apart from occasional and sporadic case reports or mini …

Combining lexical and context features for automatic ontology extension

S Althubaiti, Ş Kafkas, M Abdelhakim… - Journal of biomedical …, 2020 - Springer
Background Ontologies are widely used across biology and biomedicine for the annotation
of databases. Ontology development is often a manual, time-consuming, and expensive …

Infectious myelopathies

MF Grill - CONTINUUM: Lifelong Learning in Neurology, 2018 - journals.lww.com
PURPOSE OF REVIEW This article reviews bacterial, viral, fungal, and parasitic pathogens
associated with myelopathy. Infectious myelopathies may be due to direct infection or …

Gnathostoma spinigerum in live Asian swamp eels (Monopterus spp.) from food markets and wild populations, United States

RA Cole, A Choudhury, LG Nico… - Emerging Infectious …, 2014 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
In Southeast Asia, swamp eels (Synbranchidae: Monopterus spp.) are a common source of
human gnathostomiasis, a foodborne zoonosis caused by advanced third-stage larvae …

Neuroinvasions caused by parasites

M Dzikowiec, K Góralska, J Blaszkowska - Annals of Parasitology, 2017 - agro.icm.edu.pl
Parasitic diseases of the central nervous system are associated with high mortality and
morbidity. Many human parasites, such as Toxoplasma gondii, Entamoeba histolytica …

Gnathostoma spinigerum Mitochondrial Genome Sequence: a Novel Gene Arrangement and its Phylogenetic Position within the Class Chromadorea

GH Liu, R Shao, XQ Cai, WW Li, XQ Zhu - Scientific Reports, 2015 - nature.com
Human gnathostomiasis is an emerging food-borne parasitic disease caused by nematodes
in the genus Gnathostoma. In spite of their significance as pathogens, these parasites …

Sushi, ceviche and gnathostomiasis-A case report and review of imported infections

J Leroy, M Cornu, AS Deleplancque, S Loridant… - Travel Medicine and …, 2017 - Elsevier
We describe a case of imported cutaneous gnathostomiasis in a Thai patient living in
France. Gnathostomiasis is a zoonosis of food origin. The disease is endemic in Southeast …