CAPILLARIASIS
BY: CROSS JH; BELIZARIO V. IN : FOOD-BORNE PARASITIC ZOONOSES: FISH AND PLANT BORNE PARASITES, ED. BY K. DARWIN MURRELL AND BERNARD FRIED 2007, CHAPTER 6 PP. 209-234
THERE ARE MANY NEWLY EMERGING AND REEMERGING FOOD-BORNE PARASITIC DISEASES THAT ARE GAINING INTERNATIONAL SIGNIFICANCE SUCH AS FASCIOLIASIS, ANISAKIASIS, GNATHOSTOMIASIS, TRICHINELLOSIS, ECHINOTOMIASIS, CYSTICERCOSIS, ANGIOSTRONGYLIASIS, AND CAPILLARIASIS. CAPIILLARRIA PHILIPPINENSIS IS ONE OF THE MORE RECENTLY DISCOVERED FOOD-BORNE ZOONOTIC PARASITES AND HAS BECOME ONE OF THE MOST BIOLOGICALLY INTERESTING, NOT ONLY BECAUSE OF ITS HIGH RISK OF DEATH IN INFECTED PEOPLE, BUT ALSO BECAUSE OF IT'S UNUSUAL LIFE CYCLE AND REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR. THE PARASITE WAS UNKNOWN UNTIL THE LATTER PART OF THE 20TH CENTURY WHEN IT WAS FOUND TO BE THE CAUSE OF AN EPIDEMIC THAT OFTEN RESULTED IN DEATH TO A NUMBER OF THOSE INFECTED WITH THE NEMATODE.
THERE ARE MANY NEWLY EMERGING AND REEMERGING FOOD-BORNE PARASITIC DISEASES THAT ARE GAINING INTERNATIONAL SIGNIFICANCE SUCH AS FASCIOLIASIS, ANISAKIASIS, GNATHOSTOMIASIS, TRICHINELLOSIS, ECHINOTOMIASIS, CYSTICERCOSIS, ANGIOSTRONGYLIASIS, AND CAPILLARIASIS. CAPIILLARRIA PHILIPPINENSIS IS ONE OF THE MORE RECENTLY DISCOVERED FOOD-BORNE ZOONOTIC PARASITES AND HAS BECOME ONE OF THE MOST BIOLOGICALLY INTERESTING, NOT ONLY BECAUSE OF ITS HIGH RISK OF DEATH IN INFECTED PEOPLE, BUT ALSO BECAUSE OF IT'S UNUSUAL LIFE CYCLE AND REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR. THE PARASITE WAS UNKNOWN UNTIL THE LATTER PART OF THE 20TH CENTURY WHEN IT WAS FOUND TO BE THE CAUSE OF AN EPIDEMIC THAT OFTEN RESULTED IN DEATH TO A NUMBER OF THOSE INFECTED WITH THE NEMATODE.