Moorhouse D E
Med J Aust. 1982 Feb 20;1(4):172-3.
Toxocariasis may have been the cause of the outbreak of a hepatitis-like illness amongst residents of the Palm Island community in 1979. Baby fruit bats on the island were infected with Toxocara pteropodis, and many eggs of this worm were recovered from mangoes. The lifecycle of T. pteropodis is described and compared with that of T. canis. If T. pteropodis was responsible, the infection could be prevented by washing the mangoes before eating them.
弓蛔虫病可能是1979年棕榈岛社区居民中爆发的一种类似肝炎疾病的病因。岛上的幼果蝠感染了翼手弓蛔虫，并且从芒果中发现了许多这种蠕虫的虫卵。本文描述了翼手弓蛔虫的生命周期，并将其与犬弓蛔虫的生命周期进行了比较。如果是翼手弓蛔虫导致的，那么在食用芒果前将其清洗干净就可以预防感染。
