Acute Small-Bowel Obstruction From Intestinal Anisakiasis After the Ingestion of Raw Clams; Documenting a New Method of Marine-to-Human Parasitic Transmission

Ehyal Shweiki; David W Rittenhouse; Joana E Ochoa; Viren P Punja; Muhammad H Zubair; Jeffrey P Baliff

doi:10.1093/ofid/ofu087

Acute Small-Bowel Obstruction From Intestinal Anisakiasis After the Ingestion of Raw Clams; Documenting a New Method of Marine-to-Human Parasitic Transmission

Open Forum Infect Dis. 2014 Sep 26;1(2):ofu087. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofu087. eCollection 2014 Sep.

Authors

Ehyal Shweiki¹, David W Rittenhouse¹, Joana E Ochoa², Viren P Punja¹, Muhammad H Zubair³, Jeffrey P Baliff⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Surgery , Thomas Jefferson University Hospital , Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
² Department of Surgery , Tulane University , New Orleans, Louisiana.
³ Department of Surgery , Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania , Philadelphia.
⁴ Department of Pathology, Anatomy, and Cell Biology , Thomas Jefferson University Hospital , Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Abstract

Enteric anisakiasis is a known parasitic infection. To date, human infection has been reported as resulting from the inadvertent ingestion of the anisakis larvae when eating raw/undercooked fish, squid, or eel. We present a first reported case of intestinal obstruction caused by anisakiasis, after the ingestion of raw clams.

Keywords: anisakiasis; clams; small-bowel obstruction.