Table 1.
Case 1 | Case 2 | Case 3 | Case 4 | |
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Age (years) sex (F・M) | 25・M | 26・M | 47・M | 26・M |
Destination | Malaysia | PNG | Laos | India |
Symptoms | Abdominal pain | Asymptomatic | Abdominal pain | Abdominal pain |
Watery diarrhea | Watery diarrhea | Watery diarrhea | ||
Hemoglobin (g/dL) | 14.5 | 15.1 | 13.5 | 16.1 |
Eosinophil count (/μL) | 3000 | 1570 | 20,470c | 7050 |
Eggs in feces | Detected | Detected | Detected | Detected |
Larvae isolation (Harada-Mori culture) | Succeeded | Faileda | Succeeded | Succeeded |
Endoscopy | Capsule | Not performed | Capsule | Not performed |
DB enteroscopy | ||||
Adult worms isolated (total, M/F) | 11 (5 M/6 F) | 0 | 9 (3 M/6 F) | 0 |
Treatment | Pirantel pamoate | Pirantel pamoate | Pirantel pamoate | Albendazole |
GenBank accession number (cox1) | LC271155.1 | LC036567.1b | LC271184.1 | LC271185.1 |
LC036568 |
aOnly single larva was obtained. Unfortunately, it had failed to grow fully into a filariform larva
bLC036567.1 shows sequences for the gene of 18S rRNA, ITS1, 5.8S rRNA, ITS2, and 28S rRNAva
cThe value at the visit to Nara Prefectural General Medical center