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Descriptor English: Anisakiasis
Descriptor Spanish: Anisakiasis
Descriptor anisakiasis
Entry term(s) anisaquiasis
infestación por Anisakis
Scope note: Infección por helmintos del género ANISAKIS. La infección humana se debe al consumo de pescado que contiene las larvas de estos parásitos. Los gusanos pueden causar NÁUSEA aguda, VÓMITOS, o penetrar en la pared del TRACTO GASTROINTESTINAL, donde dan lugar a un GRANULOMA EOSINÓFILO en el ESTÓMAGO, en INTESTINOS o en el EPIPLÓN.
Descriptor Portuguese: Anisaquíase
Descriptor French: Anisakiase
Entry term(s): Anisakiases
Anisakis Infection
Anisakis Infections
Infection, Anisakis
Infections, Anisakis
Tree number(s): C01.610.335.508.700.100.060
C01.610.432.060
C06.405.469.452.060
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D017129
Scope note: Infection with roundworms of the genus ANISAKIS. Human infection results from the consumption of fish harboring roundworm larvae. The worms may cause acute NAUSEA; VOMITING; or penetrate into the wall of the DIGESTIVE TRACT where they give rise to EOSINOPHILIC GRANULOMA in the STOMACH; INTESTINES; or the OMENTUM.
Allowable Qualifiers: BL blood
CF cerebrospinal fluid
CI chemically induced
CL classification
CN congenital
CO complications
DG diagnostic imaging
DH diet therapy
DI diagnosis
DT drug therapy
EC economics
EH ethnology
EM embryology
EN enzymology
EP epidemiology
ET etiology
GE genetics
HI history
IM immunology
ME metabolism
MI microbiology
MO mortality
NU nursing
PA pathology
PC prevention & control
PP physiopathology
PS parasitology
PX psychology
RH rehabilitation
RT radiotherapy
SU surgery
TH therapy
TM transmission
UR urine
VE veterinary
VI virology
Previous Indexing: Nematode Infections (1967-1992)
Public MeSH Note: 93
History Note: 93
DeCS ID: 30848
Unique ID: D017129
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1993/01/01
Date of Entry: 1992/05/07
Revision Date: 2017/02/24
Anisakiasis - Preferred
Concept UI M0026023
Scope note Infection with roundworms of the genus ANISAKIS. Human infection results from the consumption of fish harboring roundworm larvae. The worms may cause acute NAUSEA; VOMITING; or penetrate into the wall of the DIGESTIVE TRACT where they give rise to EOSINOPHILIC GRANULOMA in the STOMACH; INTESTINES; or the OMENTUM.
Preferred term Anisakiasis
Entry term(s) Anisakiases
Anisakis Infection
Anisakis Infections
Infection, Anisakis
Infections, Anisakis



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