Parasites, Hosts and Diseases

The Korea Society for Parasitology and Tropical Medicine (대한기생충학·열대의학회)
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A human case of gastric infection by Pseudoterranova decipiens larva

  • yu, Jae-Ran (Department of Parasitology, College of Medicine, Konkuk University) ;
  • Seo, Min (Department of Parasitology, College of Medicine, Dankook University) ;
  • Kim, Young-Wook (Department of Parasitology, College of Medicine, Konkuk University) ;
  • Oh, Mee-Hee (OH Mee-Hee Internal Medicine Clinic) ;
  • Sohn, Yoon-Mok (Department of Parasitology College of Medicine, Gyeongsang National University)
  • Published : 2001.06.01
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Abstract

We report a case of gastric pseudoterranoviasis proven by gastrofiberscopy on Dec. 13, 1994. The 34-year-old male patient, residing in Chungju-shi, was admitted to Konkuk University Hospital complaining of prickling epigastric pain. The symptoms suddenly attacked him two days after eating raw marine fish at Chonan-shi. By the gastrofiberscopic examination, a long white-yellowish nematode was found from the fundus region of stomach. The worm was $34.50{\;}{\times}{\;}0.84{\;}{\;}mm$ in size. and was identified as a 3rd stage larva of Pseudoterranova decipiens judging from the position of the intestinal cecum. This is the 12th confirmed case of human pseudoterranoviasis in Korea.

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