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Table 1 Patient information and clinical and diagnostic features of four Japanese traveler cases of Ancylostoma ceylanicum infection

From: Ancylostoma ceylanicum, novel etiological agent for traveler’s diarrhea—report of four Japanese patients who returned from Southeast Asia and Papua New Guinea

 

Case 1

Case 2

Case 3

Case 4

Age (years) sex (F・M)

25・M

26・M

47・M

26・M

Destination

Malaysia

PNG

Laos

India

Symptoms

Abdominal pain

Asymptomatic

Abdominal pain

Abdominal pain

Watery diarrhea

Watery diarrhea

Watery diarrhea

Hemoglobin (g/dL)

14.5

15.1

13.5

16.1

Eosinophil count (/μL)

3000

1570

20,470c

7050

Eggs in feces

Detected

Detected

Detected

Detected

Larvae isolation (Harada-Mori culture)

Succeeded

Faileda

Succeeded

Succeeded

Endoscopy

Capsule

Not performed

Capsule

Not performed

DB enteroscopy

Adult worms isolated (total, M/F)

11 (5 M/6 F)

0

9 (3 M/6 F)

0

Treatment

Pirantel pamoate

Pirantel pamoate

Pirantel pamoate

Albendazole

GenBank accession number (cox1)

LC271155.1

LC036567.1b

LC271184.1

LC271185.1

LC036568

  1. aOnly single larva was obtained. Unfortunately, it had failed to grow fully into a filariform larva
  2. bLC036567.1 shows sequences for the gene of 18S rRNA, ITS1, 5.8S rRNA, ITS2, and 28S rRNAva
  3. cThe value at the visit to Nara Prefectural General Medical center