Table 2.
Country of acquisition, age of patient and egg sizes reported for all published human cases of bertiellosis to date
| Geographical location of acquisition | Age (years) |
Reported egg size (μm) | Source | Notes and comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bertiella studeri | ||||
| Mauritius | 8 | nd | (Blanchard, 1913) | |
| India (Bihar or West Bengal) | 2 | 46–49 | (Chandler, 1925) | Originally reported as ‘B. satyri’* |
| India (West Bengal) | nd | nd | (Mukerji, 1927) | Originally reported as ‘B. satyri’* |
| West Indies (St. Kitts) | ‘young’ | nd | (Cameron, 1929) | St Kitts has monkeys of west African origin |
| India (Meghalaya) | nd | nd | (Sharma, 1930) | Originally reported as ‘B. satyri’* |
| India (Meghalaya) | nd | nd | “ | Originally reported as ‘B. satyri’* |
| India (Meghalaya) | nd | nd | “ | Originally reported as ‘B. satyri’* |
| India (East Bengal) | 8 | 46–49 | (Maplestone, 1930) | |
| Indonesia (Sumatra) | nd | nd | (Joyeux and Dollfus, 1931) | |
| Mauritius | 8 | nd | (Adams and Webb, 1933) | |
| Mauritius | 4 | nd | “ | |
| Mauritius | 7 | nd | (Adams, 1935) | |
| Philippines (Iloilo) | 8 | 55–73 | (Africa and Garcia, 1935) | |
| India (Uttar Pradesh) | 5 | nd | (Maplestone and Riddle, 1936) | |
| Bangladesh | 8 | nd | (Roy, 1938) | |
| Indonesia (Java) | 7 | nd | (Bonne, 1940) | |
| Kenya | 8 | nd | (Buckley and Fairley, 1950) | |
| Indonesia (Java) | 4 | nd | Lie Kian, 1961 (Pers Comm) | |
| Indonesia (Kalimantan) | 3.5 | nd | “ | |
| Singapore | 6 | nd | (Desowitz et al., 1961) | |
| USA (Minnesota) | 5 | 40–60 | (Stunkard et al., 1964) | Patient had close contact with a pet monkey |
| Yemen | nd | nd | (Fogh and Seaton, 1967) | |
| Yemen | 6 | nd | (Thompson et al., 1967) | Diagnosed in Britain in a returned traveller, reported as ‘Bertiella sp.’* |
| Indonesia (Sumatra) | 6.5 | nd | (Kwo and Koh, 1968) | |
| Indonesia (Sumatra) | 7 | nd | “ | |
| Indonesia (Sumatra) | 6 | nd | “ | |
| Indonesia (Sumatra) | 14 | nd | “ | |
| Indonesia (Sumatra) | 5 | nd | “ | |
| Indonesia (Sumatra) | 6 | nd | “ | |
| Democratic Republic of Congo | ‘young’ | nd | “ | |
| Republic of Congo | 2.5 | 45–47 × 48–50 | (Jones et al., 1971) | Diagnosed in Canada in a returned expatriate, reported as ‘Bertiella sp.’* |
| Sri Lanka | ‘pre-school child’ | nd | (Edirisinghe and Cumararajan, 1976) | Reported based on pers. comm. from Wijesundera, M.K. de S. 1975 |
| Sri Lanka | ‘pre-school child’ | nd | “ | Reported based on pers. comm. from Wijesundera, M.K. de S. 1975 |
| Sri Lanka | 4.5 | nd | “ | |
| Yemen | 25 | nd | (Imamkuliev et al., 1983) | Diagnosed in Russia from a Yemeni student |
| India | 29 | nd | (Subbannayya et al., 1984) | Reported as ‘Bertiella sp.’* |
| Thailand | 26 | nd | (Bhaibulaya, 1985) | |
| Saudi Arabia | 28 | nd | (Bolbol, 1985) | Reported as ‘Bertiella sp.’* |
| Gabon | 2 | nd | (Richard-Lenoble et al., 1986) | |
| India (West Bengal) | 9 | 44 × 48 | (Bandyopadhyay and Manna, 1987) | |
| Sri Lanka | ‘child’ | nd | (Weerasooriya et al., 1988) | |
| Sri Lanka | ‘child’ | nd | ‘ | |
| Indonesia (Sumatra) | 8 | nd | (Kosin and Kosin, 1992) | |
| Indonesia (Kalimantan) | 5 | nd | “ | |
| Indonesia (Sumatra) | 3.5 | nd | “ | |
| Indonesia (Sumatra) | ‘child’ | nd | “ | |
| Indonesia (Sumatra) | ‘child’ | nd | “ | |
| Indonesia (Sumatra) | ‘child’ | nd | “ | |
| Indonesia (Sumatra) | ‘child’ | nd | “ | |
| Indonesia (Sumatra) | ‘child’ | nd | “ | |
| Indonesia (Sumatra) | 3 | nd | (Kagei et al., 1992) | |
| Indonesia (Sumatra) | ‘adult’ | nd | “ | |
| Japan | 3 | nd | (Kojima et al., 1992) | |
| Japan | 2 | nd | (Iseki et al., 1993) | |
| India (Orissa) | 4 | 48–62 | (Panda and Panda, 1994) | |
| Kenya | 33 | 37–51 × 37–46 | (Galan-Puchades et al., 1995) | Diagnosed in Spain from a returned traveller |
| Japan | 23 | 47–54 | (Ando et al., 1996) | |
| Equatorial Guinea | 50 | 51–49 | (Galán-Puchades et al., 1997) | |
| Sri Lanka | 10.5 | nd | (Karunaweera et al., 2001) | |
| Vietnam | 4 | 41–50 | (Xuan le et al., 2003) | |
| Sri Lanka | 2.5 | nd | (Gallella et al., 2011) | |
| Saudi Arabia | 40 | nd | (El-Dib et al., 2004) | |
| Mauritius | 3–7 | 50–65 × 30–45 | (Bhagwant, 2004) | |
| Mauritius | 3–7 | nd | “ | |
| Mauritius | 3–7 | nd | “ | |
| Mauritius | 3.5 | nd | “ | |
| Mauritius | 32 | nd | “ | |
| South Africa (Western Cape) | 28 | nd | (Frean and Dini, 2004) | Probably acquired at a private zoo in Cape Town |
| Sri Lanka | 2.5 | nd | (Morawakkorala et al., 2006) | |
| Sri Lanka | 5 | nd | “ | |
| China (Anhui) | 3.5 | 38–50 | (Sun et al., 2006) | |
| Yemen | ‘Man’ | nd | (Achir et al., 2008) | Diagnosed in Algeria from a Yemeni student |
| ‘Africa’ | ‘young’ | 52–61 | (CDC-DPDx, 2009) | Diagnosed from a refugee living in Australia |
| Saudi Arabia (Jizan) | adult | 49–51 | (Al-Mathal et al., 2010) | Diagnosed in Egypt from a recently returned expatriate |
| Equatorial Guinea | 4 | 49–60 | (Lozano Mdel et al., 2010) | |
| Indonesia (Sumatra) | 2.5 | nd | (Anwar and Ghiffari, 2010) | |
| India (Haryana) | 4 | 44–36 | (Malik et al., 2013) | |
| South Africa (Gauteng) | 6 | nd | (Du Plooy, 2014) | |
| South Africa (Gauteng) | 27 | nd | “ | |
| India (Himachal Pradesh) | 2 | 46–65 | (Sharma et al., 2017) | |
| Bertiella mucronata | ||||
| Cuba | ‘young’ | 36–40 | (Cram, 1928) | |
| Brazil | 29 | nd | (Pessoa, 1930) | |
| Argentina | 46 | nd | (Bacigalupo, 1949) | |
| Paraguay | 29 | 38–46 | (d' Alessandro et al., 1963) | |
| Brazil (Minas Gerais) | nd | 38–41 | (de Costa et al., 1967) | |
| Argentina | 45 | nd | (Feldman et al., 1983) | |
| Argentina | 2 | nd | (Garaguso and Mendez, 1983) | |
| Brazil (Goiás) | 2 | 39–41 | (Paçô et al., 2003) | |
| Argentina (Corrientes) | 9 | nd | (Gené et al., 2011) | |
| Brazil (Pará state) | 4 | 42–47 × 41–46 | (Furtado et al., 2012) | |
| Brazil (Minas Gerais) | 8 | 40 × 41 | (da Silva et al., 2011) | |
| Brazil (Minas Gerais) | 2.5 | 42–47 | (Lopes et al., 2015) | Reported as ‘B. studeri’* |
*Note the species categories presented in this table are based on geography (B. studeri from the Old World, B. mucronata from the New World).