Table 2.
Summary of A. ceylanicum–positive clinical cases from 2013 to 2018
Yoshikawa et al.34 | Brunet et al.35 | Speare et al.36 | Kaya et al.37 | Ngui et al.38 | ||||
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Age (years), gender | 25, male | 47, male | 26, male | 26, male | 33, male | 26, male | 47, male | 58, female |
Country | Malaysia | Laos | India | Papua New Guinea | Myanmar | Solomon Islands | Thailand/Laos | Malaysia |
Tourist | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | |||
Symptoms | Abdominal pain, watery diarrhea | Asymptomatic | Fever, weight loss, dyspnea, abdominal pain, bloody diarrhea | Abdominal pain, peripheral eosinophilia | Intermittent diarrhea, extreme eosinophilia, fever, abdominal pain, watery diarrhea, vomiting | Melena, discolored stool, dizziness, tightness of chest, cold sweats | ||
Eosinophil count/μL (range, 30–500 or < 6%) | 3,000 | 20,470 | 7,050 | 1,570 | 59% | 6.20 × 109/L | 43%, 74% | 1% |
Anemia | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes |