PRESENTADO POR: PEDRO MONCADA

GENERALITIES

• Anisakis spp is a round tube worm digestive, which belongs to the edge of the nematodes.
• Adult worms are cylindrical, elongated and pointed in the extremes.
• Anisákidos have a cosmopolitan distribution derived from the habitats of their hosts.
• In the case of gender Anisakis spp the definitive hosts are cetaceans such as whales, killer whales,
dolphins.
• Anisakiosis occurs after ingestion of live third stage larvae and depending on the location of the
lesions can be considered gastric, intestinal or ectopic.
 TAXONOMIC CLASSIFICATION

kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Nematoda
Class: Secernentea
Order: Ascaridida
Family: Anisakidae
Genus: Anisakis spp
SEROTYPES
LIFE CYCLE
 CLINICAL MANIFESTATIONS

The transmission of the infestation is

Minimum infective
caused by the ingestion of raw or
dose (DIM) a single undercooked fish or cephalopods
larva. contaminated with the L3 larvae
(zoonosis).

Anisachiosis or anisakiasis:
The clinical manifestations are
disease due to the presence
usually mixed cases with
and attachment of the parasite
gastrointestinal and allergic
larvae in the gastric and
symptoms.
intestinal mucosa.
The initial symptoms, a few
hours after the intake of
the larva, are: diarrhea, severe
abdominal pain, nausea and,
sometimes, vomiting.
The larva reaches the small
intestine, an eosinophilic
granulomatous response,
enteritis, pseudo appendicitis,
intestinal obstruction can
occur.
FOOD INVOLVED

Consumption of
foods such as raw or
undercooked fish,
crustaceans among
others.
MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS OF CAUSE OF Anisakiasis IN
HUMANS, SOUTH KOREA

• Province: Seoul, South Korea

• Time: from 2000 through 2013
• samples: 26 larvae were analyzed
by DNA sequencing
 ANISAKIASIS AND GASTROALLERGIC REACTIONS
ASSOCIATED WITH Anisakis pegreffii INFECTION, ITALY

• Province:Abruzzo (4), Latium (1),

Campania (2) and Tuscany (1)
• Time: June 2011–June 2012
• samples: 8 patients studied