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Volume 28, Number 10—October 2022
Dispatch

Anisakiasis Annual Incidence and Causative Species, Japan, 2018–2019

Hiromu SugiyamaComments to Author , Mitsuko Shiroyama, Ikuyo Yamamoto, Takashi Ishikawa, and Yasuyuki Morishima
Author affiliations: National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan (H. Sugiyama, I. Yamamoto, Y. Morishima); Azabu University, Kanagawa, Japan (M. Shiroyama); BML, Inc., Saitama, Japan (T. Ishikawa)

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Analyzed number and percentage of anisakiasis patients and causative species, Japan, 2018–2019. One third (2/6) of patients in the Kyushu Island had Anisakis pegreffii infections. A. pegreffii–carrying fish are predominant in the Sea of Japan and the East China Sea, located between South Korea and Japan (11). Over 50% (6/11) of the patients with Pseudoterranova azarasi infection were from Hokkaido.

Figure 2. Analyzed number and percentage of anisakiasis patients and causative species, Japan, 2018–2019. One third (2/6) of patients in the Kyushu Island had Anisakis pegreffii infections. A. pegreffii–carrying fish are predominant in the Sea of Japan and the East China Sea, located between South Korea and Japan (11). Over 50% (6/11) of the patients with Pseudoterranova azarasi infection were from Hokkaido.

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