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Sushi delights and parasites: the risk of fishborne and foodborne parasitic zoonoses in AsiaYukifumi Nawa
Department of Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan
Clin Infect Dis 41:1297-303. 2005..The aim of this review is to provide practical background information regarding representative fishborne and foodborne parasitic zoonoses endemic in Asian countries...- A case of Ascaris suum visceral larva migrans diagnosed by using A. suum larval excretory-secretory (ES) antigenFukumi Nakamura-Uchiyama
Parasitic Diseases Unit, Department of Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, University of Miyazaki, Kiyotake, Miyazaki, Japan
Scand J Infect Dis 38:221-4. 2006..suum for the fine discrimination of VLM caused by A. suum and by T. canis. Application of A. suum derived ES antigens as a diagnostic tool may reveal the distinctive clinical features of VLM caused by A. suum... - A possible role of TARC in antigen-specific Th2-dominant responses in patients with Paragonimiasis westermaniShigeki Katoh
Third Department of Internal Medicine, Miyazaki Medical College, Kiyotake, Miyazaki, Japan
Int Arch Allergy Immunol 134:248-52. 2004..Thymus and activation-regulated chemokine (TARC) is a potential key regulator of Th2-mediated inflammation. The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the antigen-specific Th2-dominant responses in patients with Pw... - Mucosal T cells bearing TCRgammadelta play a protective role in intestinal inflammationKyoko Inagaki-Ohara
Department of Infectious Diseases, Division of Parasitic Disease, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki Medical College, Kiyotake, Miyazaki, Japan
J Immunol 173:1390-8. 2004..Our study suggests that enhancement of regulatory gammadelta T cell activity is a possible new cell therapy for colitis... 
Chronic intestinal nematode infection induces Stat6-independent interleukin-5 production and causes eosinophilic inflammatory responses in miceYukiko Sakamoto
Department of Infectious Diseases, Division of Parasitic Diseases, Miyazaki Medical College, Miyazaki 889-1692, Japan
Immunology 112:615-23. 2004..i. Taken together, these results provide evidence for Stat6-independent IL-5 production and subsequent eosinophil responses after chronic infection with N. brasiliensis...
Adventitial mast cells contribute to pathogenesis in the progression of abdominal aortic aneurysmToshihiro Tsuruda
Department of Internal Medicine, Circulatory and Body Fluid Regulation, Faculty of Medicine, University of Miyazaki 5200 Kihara Kiyotake, Miyazaki 889 1692, Japan
Circ Res 102:1368-77. 2008..Collectively, these data suggest that adventitial mast cells play a critical role in the progression of AAA...- Intestinal intraepithelial lymphocytes sustain the epithelial barrier function against Eimeria vermiformis infectionKyoko Inagaki-Ohara
Parasitic Diseases Unit, Department of Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, University of Miyazaki, Kiyotake, Miyazaki 889 1692, Japan
Infect Immun 74:5292-301. 2006..vermiformis-induced change by cytokine production but also in direct interaction with the epithelial barrier when intra-EC junctions are down-regulated... - Intraepithelial lymphocytes express junctional molecules in murine small intestineKyoko Inagaki-Ohara
Parasitic Diseases Unit, Department of Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, University of Miyazaki, Kiyotake, Miyazaki 889 1692, Japan
Biochem Biophys Res Commun 331:977-83. 2005..The expression of occludin was augmented by anti-CD3 Ab stimulation. These results suggest the possibility of a novel role of IEL concerning epithelial barrier and communication between IEL and EC... - Large-group infection of boar-hunting dogs with Paragonimus westermani in Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan, with special reference to a case of sudden death due to bilateral pneumothoraxNatsuko Nakano
Faculty of Agriculture, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan
J Vet Med Sci 71:657-60. 2009..Taken together with our previous results, it appears that paragonimosis is a serious problem in boar-hunting dogs. The possible risks of infected dogs acting as a source for maintaining the P. westermani life cycle are also discussed... - Paragonimiasis cases recently found among immigrants in JapanAkio Obara
Department of Infectious Diseases, Parasitic Diseases Division, School of Medicine, University of Miyazaki, Kiyotake, Miyazaki 889-1692
Intern Med 43:388-92. 2004..About 80% of patients had peripheral blood eosinophilia and 65% had elevated serum IgE level. CONCLUSION: The clinical features of paragonimiasis in immigrants in Japan were much more severe compared to those of Japanese patients... - Immune-mediated damage is not essential for the expulsion of Nippostrongylus brasiliensis adult worms from the small intestine of miceKenji Ishiwata
Department of Parasitology, Miyazaki Medical College, Kiyotake, Miyazaki, Japan
Parasite Immunol 24:381-6. 2002..brasiliensis adult worms (first step) is not a prerequisite for expulsion from the small intestine of mice, although adult worms are actually damaged by Stat6-independent immune mechanisms... - Infection of a group of boar-hunting dogs with Paragonimus westermani in Miyazaki Prefecture, JapanYumi Kirino
Laboratory of Veterinary Parasitic Diseases, Department of Veterinary Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Miyazaki, Gakuen kibanadai Nishi 1 1, Miyazaki 889 2192, Japan
Vet Parasitol 158:376-9. 2008..Subsequent examination of four other dogs working with this dog as a boar-hunting team revealed that all five dogs were infected with P. westermani... - A seroepidemiological survey for paragonimosis among boar-hunting dogs in central and southern Kyushu, JapanYumi Kirino
Laboratory of Veterinary Parasitic Diseases, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Miyazaki, 1 1 Gakuen Kibanadai Nishi, Miyazaki 889 2192, Japan
Vet Parasitol 161:335-8. 2009..westermani, in the mountainous areas of central and southern Kyushu, Japan... - MRI studies of spinal visceral larva migrans syndromeFujio Umehara
Department of Neurology and Geriatrics, Kagoshima University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Kagoshima University, Sakuragaoka 8 35 1, Kagoshima, 890 8520, Japan
J Neurol Sci 249:7-12. 2006..Antihelmintic and corticosteroid treatment yielded improvement in neurologic deficits and spinal lesions. However, one patient with T. canis infection relapsed associated with reappearance of MRI abnormalities... - Mucosal mast cell-derived chondroitin sulphate levels in and worm expulsion from FcRgamma-knockout mice following oral challenge with Strongyloides venezuelensisDenis Nnabuike Onah
Department of Veterinary Parasitology and Entomology, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria
J Vet Sci 5:221-6. 2004..venezuelensis from the gut of WT mice following challenge... - Active hepatic capsulitis caused by Paragonimus westermani infectionMichiro Sasaki
Department of Radiology, Kagoshima City Medical Association Hospital, Kagoshima
Intern Med 41:661-3. 2002..This case report describes a patient with active hepatic capsulitis due to Paragonimus westermani infection. The patient was successfully treated with praziquantel at the dose of 75 mg/kg/day for 3 days... - Pulmonary dirofilariasis with serologic study on familial infection with Dirofilaria immitisShin-Ichiro Mori
Third Department of Internal Madicine, Kagoshima University School of Madicine, Kagoshima
Intern Med 43:327-30. 2004..immitis. These results suggest that family members of a patient with pulmonary dirofilariasis were frequently exposed to D. immitis and serodiagnostic methods are useful for detecting subclinical infection of D. immitis... - Chronic eosinophilic pneumonia due to visceral larva migransKoji Inoue
Department of Internal Medicine, National Kinki-Chuo Hospital for Chest Diseases, Sakai, Osaka
Intern Med 41:478-82. 2002.... - Strongyloides venezuelensis: longitudinal distribution of adult worms in the host intestine is influenced by mucosal sulfated carbohydratesHaruhiko Maruyama
Department of Molecular Parasitology, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kawasumi 1, Mizuho, Nagoya 467 8601, Japan
Exp Parasitol 100:179-85. 2002..Our results suggest that sulfated glycoconjugates, either from mucosal mast cells or goblet cells, have important effects on the longitudinal distribution of parasitic females of S. venezuelensis... - Morphological and molecular identification of two Paragonimus spp., of which metacercariae concurrently found in a land crab, Potamiscus tannanti, collected in Yenbai Province, VietnamPham Ngoc Doanh
Department of Parasitology, Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources, Vietnamese Academy of Science and Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam
Parasitol Res 100:1075-82. 2007..skrjabini complex, their genetic distance was considerably different from two other known subspecies, P. skrjabini skrjabini and P. skrjabini miyazakii. Our results provide a new insight on the phylogeny of the genus Paragonimus... - Toxocariasis presenting with multiple effusions in the pericardial space, thoracic cavity, and Morrison's pouchYasunori Matsuki
Department of Medicine, Japan Defense Force Central Hospital, Tokyo
Intern Med 46:913-4. 2007 - Description of a new lung fluke species, Paragonimus vietnamensis sp. nov. (Trematoda, Paragonimidae), found in northern VietnamPham Ngoc Doanh
Department of Parasitology, Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources, Vietnamese Academy of Science and Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam
Parasitol Res 101:1495-501. 2007..harinasutai. Taken these morphological data and our previous molecular phylogenetic analyses of ITS2 and CO1 sequences of metacercariae and adult worms together, P. vietnamensis sp. nov. is different from any other known Paragonimus spp... - Discovery of Paragonimus proliferus in Northern Vietnam and their molecular phylogenetic status among genus ParagonimusPham Ngoc Doanh
Department of Parasitology, Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources, Vietnamese Academy of Science and Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam
Parasitol Res 102:677-83. 2008..This is the first record of P. proliferus in Vietnam and the first record from outside of China. Phylogenetic relationship between P. proliferus and P. hokuoensis is discussed... - Sequence analyses of ITS2 and CO1 genes of Paragonimus proliferus obtained in Yunnan province, China and their similarities with those of P. hokuoensisBen jiang Zhou
Department of Parasitology, Kunming Medical College, Kunming 650031, China
Parasitol Res 102:1379-83. 2008..proliferus. By phylogenetic tree analyses, all samples of P. proliferus from China and Vietnam together with P. hokuoensis constructed a distinct group within, or very close to, Paragonimus skrjabini complex in both trees... - Morphology of Gnathostoma spp. isolated from natural hosts in Sinaloa, MexicoSylvia P Diaz Camacho
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Parasitol Res 88:639-45. 2002..spinigerum or G. binucleatum... - [A case of myeloradiculitis as a complication of visceral larva migrans due to Ascaris suum]Sonoyo Yoshida
Department of Neurology, Utano National Hospital
Rinsho Shinkeigaku 44:198-202. 2004..Our results suggest that neurological involvement due to visceral larva migrans can be efficaciously treated with not only helminthic drugs but also intravenous corticosteroids... - [Worms that get on our nerves]Haruhiko Maruyama
Department of Molecular Parasitology, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences
No To Shinkei 58:571-81. 2006 - A serologically diagnosed human case of cutaneous larva migrans caused by Ancylostoma caninumIn-Ho Kwon
Department of Dermatology, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul 110-744, Republic of Korea
Korean J Parasitol 41:233-7. 2003..This is the first reported case of a cutaneous larva migrans caused by Ancylostoma canimum diagnosed serologically using ELISA in Korea... - Identification of tissue-embedded ascarid larvae by ribosomal DNA sequencingKenji Ishiwata
Department of Parasitology, Miyazaki Medical College, Kihara, Kiyotake, Miyazaki 889 1692, Japan
Parasitol Res 92:50-2. 2004..These results suggest that even a single larva embedded in tissues from patients with larva migrans could be identified by sequencing the ITS regions... - A case of cutaneous paragonimiasis with pleural effusionTeruki Dainichi
Department of Dermatology and Research Institute for Diseases of the Chest, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
Int J Dermatol 42:699-702. 2003..Paragonimiasis is an infectious disease caused by Paragonimus, which persists in the lung of mammals. Infection in the skin is very rare... - An outbreak of gnathostomiasis among Korean emigrants in MyanmarJong Yil Chai
Department of Parasitology and Tropical Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, and Institute of Endemic Diseases, Seoul National University Medical Research Center, Seoul, Republic of Korea
Am J Trop Med Hyg 69:67-73. 2003..The outbreak of the human infection is suggested to have been due to G. spinigerum, which is known to live out its life cycle in the Yangon area of Myanmar... - [Parasitic diseases in the central nervous system]Yukifumi Nawa
University of Miyazaki
Rinsho Shinkeigaku 45:891-3. 2005..They accidentally migrate into CNS to cause deleterious conditions. Clinicians should always remind about the possibility of parasitic diseases when they make differential diagnosis for CNS diseases... - The current status of parasitic diseases in JapanFukumi Nakamura-Uchiyama
Department of Parasitology, Miyazaki Medical College, Kiyotake, Miyazaki 889-1692
Intern Med 42:222-36. 2003..We also outline the clinical features, differential diagnosis and treatment of representative parasitic diseases for the better understanding and management of the parasitic diseases in Japan... - Migration of Neodiplostomum leei (Digenea: Neodiplostomidae) neodiplostomula to the livers of various mammalsEun-Hee Shin
Department of Parasitology and Tropical Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, and Institute of Endemic Diseases, Seoul National University Medical Research Center, Seoul 110-799, Korea
J Parasitol 92:223-9. 2006..The possibility of human infections, i.e., liver migration, by N. leei neodiplostomula, among snake consumers, warrants investigation... - Myocarditis associated with visceral larva migrans due to Toxocara canisKohtaro Abe
Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Kyushu University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Fukuoka
Intern Med 41:706-8. 2002..We consider that his myocarditis was probably caused by direct larval migration and/ or by hypersensitivity reaction, for which combined therapy with albendazole and prednisolone was effective... - Paragonimiasis: a Japanese perspectiveFukumi Nakamura-Uchiyama
Department of Parasitology, Miyazaki Medical College, 5200 Kiyotake, Miyazaki 889-1692, Japan
Clin Chest Med 23:409-20. 2002..For the diagnosis, rapid and reliable immunodiagnostic methods are now available. Highly effective drugs are also available for treatment...