Multiple acute parasitization by Anisakis simplex

J Investig Allergol Clin Immunol. 2010;20(5):437-41.

Abstract

Hypersensitivity to Anisakis is an increasingly prominent medical problem throughout the world, due to a better understanding of diseases induced by parasites and to modern culinary habits of eating raw or undercooked fish. We describe the case of a patient who presented epigastric pain, wheals, erythema, and pruritus 3 hours after the ingestion of fish. More than 200 larvae were obtained by endoscopy. However, the patient only developed an immune response with specific immunoglobulin E and eosinophilia peaking at day 18 and decreasing during the 17-month follow-up. Only eosinophilia reached normal limits.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Animals
  • Anisakiasis / blood
  • Anisakiasis / diagnosis*
  • Anisakiasis / immunology
  • Anisakiasis / physiopathology
  • Anisakis / growth & development
  • Anisakis / immunology*
  • Anisakis / pathogenicity
  • Antibodies, Helminth / immunology*
  • Antigens, Helminth / immunology*
  • Eating
  • Endoscopy, Gastrointestinal
  • Erythema
  • Female
  • Gastric Mucosa / parasitology
  • Gastric Mucosa / pathology
  • Humans
  • Immunoglobulin E / blood
  • Immunoglobulin E / immunology*
  • Pruritus

Substances

  • Antibodies, Helminth
  • Antigens, Helminth
  • Immunoglobulin E