Table 1.

Cases of infection with fish-borne nematodes among returned travelers

Parasite	From	To	No. of cases	Reference
Angiostrongylus cantonensis	Tahiti	France	1	[15,38]
“Anisakiasis”	Not indicated	Australia	2	[34,121]
“Anisakiasis”	Chile	Belgium	1	[122]
“Anisakisasis”	Belgium	Israel	1	[123]
Anisakis simplex	USA	Austria	2	[124]
Capillaria philippinensis	Indonesia	Italy	1	[5]
C. philippinensis	Saipan island	Korea	1	[77]
C. philippinensis	Phillipines & Thai	Taiwan	1	[68]
C. philippinensis	Phillipines	Taiwan	1	[68]
C. philippinensis	Thailand	Taiwan	3	[125]
C. philippinensis	Malaysia/Singapore	Japan	1	[71]
Gnathostoma malaysiae	Myanmar	Japan	1–2	[126]
G. spinigerum	Vietnam	Japan	1	[115]
G. spinigerum	Philippines	USA	1	[127]
G. spinigerum	Thailand	USA	1	[128]
Gnathostoma sp. (G. binucleatum ?)	Brazil or Colombia?	Belgium	1	[129]
Gnathostoma sp. (G. binucleatum ?)	Peru	Brazil	1	[130]
Gnathostoma sp. (G. binucleatum ?)	USA	Colombia	1	[131]
Gnathostoma sp. (G. binucleatum ?)	Mexico	USA	1	[132]
Gnathostoma sp. (G. binucleatum ?)	Mexico	France	1	[7]
Gnathostoma sp. (G. binucleatum ?)	Mexico	Spain	1	[133]
Gnathostoma sp. (G. binucleatum ?)	Peru	Switzerland	1	[6]
Gnathostoma sp. (G. doloresi ?)	Sri Lanka	Korea	1	[134]
Gnathostoma sp. (G. spinigerum ?)	China	Australia	15	[135]a
Gnathostoma sp. (G. spinigerum ?)	Thailand	Canada	1	[14]
Gnathostoma sp. (G. spinigerum ?)	Hungary	France	1	[136]
Gnathostoma sp. (G. spinigerum ?)	Southeast Asia	Germany	1	[137]
Gnathostoma sp. (G. spinigerum ?)	Thailand	Germany	1	[138]
Gnathostoma sp. (G. spinigerum ?)	Laos	Germany	1	[8]
Gnathostoma sp. (G. spinigerum ?)	Peru	Germany	1	[139]
Gnathostoma sp. (G. spinigerum ?)	Thailand or Indonesia	Spain	1	[140]
Gnathostoma sp. (G. spinigerum ?)	Thailand	Spain	1	[133]
Gnathostoma sp. (G. spinigerum ?)	Vietnam	Switzerland	1	[141]
Gnathostoma sp. (G. spinigerum ?)	Southeast Asia	The Netherlands	2	[142]
Gnathostoma sp. (G. spinigerum ?)	Thailand or Indonesia	Switzerland	1	[143]
Gnathostoma sp.b	Colombia	Argentina	1	[10]
Gnathostoma sp.	Vietnam	Korea	1	[9]
Gnathostoma sp.	Botswana	England	2	[144]
Gnathostoma sp.	Thailand or Myanmar	Austria	1	[117]
Gnathostoma sp.	Borneo	England	1	[111]
Gnathostoma sp.c	Cambodia	France	3	[145]
Gnathostoma sp.c	Thailand	France	1	[145]
Gnathostoma sp.c	Vietnam	France	1	[145]
Gnathostoma sp.	Brazil	France	1	[146]
Gnathostoma sp.	Cambodia	France	2	[147]
Gnathostoma sp.	Laos	France	2	[147]
Gnathostoma sp.	China	France	2	[147]
Gnathostoma sp.	Myanmar	France	1	[147]
Gnathostoma sp.	Japan	France	2	[147,148]
Gnathostoma sp.	Sri Lanka	France	1	[147]
Gnathostoma sp.	Thailand	France	1	[147]
Gnathostoma sp.	Vietnam	France	2	[147,149]
Gnathostoma sp.	Mexico	France	2	[147]
Gnathostoma sp.	Bali	France	1	[148]
Gnathostoma sp.	Brazil	Japan	1	[16]d
Gnathostoma sp.	South Africa	Japan	1	[16]d
Gnathostoma sp.	Cambodia	Japan	1	[16]d
Gnathostoma sp.	USA	Venezuela	1	[24]
Gnathostoma sp.	Ecuador	Peru	1	[150]
Gnathostoma sp.	“Caribbean”	Peru	1	[150]
Gnathostoma sp.	China	Spain	2	[111]
Gnathostoma sp.	Zambia	South Africa	1	[151]
Gnathostoma sp.	Botswana	South Africa	1	[152]
Gnathostoma sp.	Tanzania	USA	3	[153]
Gnathostoma sp.	Vietnam	USA	1	[114]
Gnathostoma sp.	Zambia	USA	1	[151]
Gnathostoma sp.	Turkey or Thailand	USA	1	[13]
Gnathostoma sp.	Thailand	USA	1	[154]

^aA personal communication from A. Fuller in Reference [135].

^bThis case was reported without immunodiagnosis and the validity of the description was questioned by Joob and Wiwanitkit [155], and the same case was commented by Rodríguez-Morales et al. [156]. See replies by Orduna et al. [157,158].

^cMénard et al. [145] reported Gnathostoma hispidum from one of the patients identified by histological observation. However, the country where the traveler came from was not indicated.

^dUnpublished data from Y. Nawa in Reference [16].