Parasitology, Harold W. Manter Laboratory of
Date of this Version
4-1981
Abstract
Within a few hours after being administered to the rhesus monkey (Macaca mulatta), Hysterothylacium type MB larvae penetrated the stomach wall, causing hemorrhage and attracting eosinophils. Inocula of up to 300 larvae, however, did not cause peripheral hypereosinophilia. This species is the first ascaridoid which normally matures in fish that has been shown to penetrate the alimentary tract of a primate. Consequently, human consumption of raw seafood from at least the northern Gulf of Mexico free from infections with Anisakis spp., Phocanema decipiens, or other species that mature in mammals or birds does not necessarily assure freedom from anisakiasis as previously assumed.
Comments
Published in the Journal of Parasitology (April 1981) 67(2): 226-235. Copyright 1981, the American Society of Parasitologists. Used by permission.