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Gnathostomiasis Acquired by Visitors to the Okavango Delta, Botswana
Gnathostomiasis is a zoonotic nematode parasite disease, most commonly acquired by eating raw or undercooked fish. Although the disease is well known in parts of Asia and Central and South America, relatively few cases have been reported from Africa. Raw fish consumed in the Okavango River delta are...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7157749/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32155896 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/tropicalmed5010039 |
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description | Gnathostomiasis is a zoonotic nematode parasite disease, most commonly acquired by eating raw or undercooked fish. Although the disease is well known in parts of Asia and Central and South America, relatively few cases have been reported from Africa. Raw fish consumed in the Okavango River delta area of Botswana, and in nearby western Zambia, has previously produced laboratory-proven gnathostomiasis in tourists. The purpose of this communication is to record additional cases of the infection acquired in the Okavango delta, and to alert visitors to the inadvisability of eating raw freshwater fish in the southern African region. |
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spelling | pubmed-71577492020-04-21 Gnathostomiasis Acquired by Visitors to the Okavango Delta, Botswana Frean, John Trop Med Infect Dis Case Report Gnathostomiasis is a zoonotic nematode parasite disease, most commonly acquired by eating raw or undercooked fish. Although the disease is well known in parts of Asia and Central and South America, relatively few cases have been reported from Africa. Raw fish consumed in the Okavango River delta area of Botswana, and in nearby western Zambia, has previously produced laboratory-proven gnathostomiasis in tourists. The purpose of this communication is to record additional cases of the infection acquired in the Okavango delta, and to alert visitors to the inadvisability of eating raw freshwater fish in the southern African region. MDPI 2020-03-06 /pmc/articles/PMC7157749/ /pubmed/32155896 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/tropicalmed5010039 Text en © 2020 by the author. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Case Report Frean, John Gnathostomiasis Acquired by Visitors to the Okavango Delta, Botswana |
title | Gnathostomiasis Acquired by Visitors to the Okavango Delta, Botswana |
title_full | Gnathostomiasis Acquired by Visitors to the Okavango Delta, Botswana |
title_fullStr | Gnathostomiasis Acquired by Visitors to the Okavango Delta, Botswana |
title_full_unstemmed | Gnathostomiasis Acquired by Visitors to the Okavango Delta, Botswana |
title_short | Gnathostomiasis Acquired by Visitors to the Okavango Delta, Botswana |
title_sort | gnathostomiasis acquired by visitors to the okavango delta, botswana |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7157749/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32155896 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/tropicalmed5010039 |
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