Title: Evaluation of Fish Capillaria spp. Antigen in Diagnosis of Human Intestinal Capillariasis
Abstract: I ntestinal capillariasis is one of the emerging zoonotic parasitic diseases caused by a tiny nematode, Capillaria philippinensis (Intapan et al., 2006).This fish born infection is considered an exhausting health problem because of its potential serious and even lethal impact if left untreated (Intapan et al., 2017).The first human case of capillariasis was detected in Philippines in 1963 (Chitwood et al., 1964).Subsequently, many cases have been reported from other Asian countries, such as Thailand where the annual epidemiological surveillance reports described 754 cases of intestinal capillariasisin the period from 1976-2006; most of these cases were occurred in 1978 and 1979(Saichua et al., 2008)).There are many other reported cases in different countries such as, Taiwan (Chen et al., 1989), Korea (Hong et al., 1994), Iran (Hoghooghi-Rad et al., 1987) and India (Kang et al, 1994).Also, sporadic cases where reported from Italy (a person who visited Indonesia) (Chichino et al., 1992) and from Colombia (Dronda et al., 1993).In Egypt, intestinal capillariasis was first reported by Youssef et al. (1989).Up to 2001, forty four human cases were diagnosed in different parts of Egypt (El-Dib and Doss, 2002).Since that time many cases have been identified and diagnosed in nearly all Egyptian governorates with the upper hand to Upper Egypt governorates.In El-Menia governorate, El-karaksy et al. (2004) reported two cases.In Beni-Suef governorate, Amin et al. (2011) reported 8 cases and Ali et al. (2016) reported 14 cases.In Assiut city, Khalifa et al. (2000) reported the fifth case in Egypt and the first one in Assiut.Then Abdel Rahman et al. (2005) reported another case followed by Attia et al.