First report of human anisakidosis in Australia
First report of human anisakidosis in Australia
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Sydney: Australasian Medical Publishing Company
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English
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Sydney: Australasian Medical Publishing Company
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We present the first human case of anisakidosis acquired from eating locally caught fish in Australia. A 41-year-old woman experienced gastrointestinal pain, vomiting and diarrhoea of increasing severity over 3 weeks. All symptoms resolved spontaneously after a worm was passed in her faeces. Microscopic examination showed that it was a Contracaecum...
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First report of human anisakidosis in Australia
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TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_857289687
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_857289687
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0025-729X
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1326-5377
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10.5694/j.1326-5377.2011.tb03772.x
