| anisakiasis in the western united states: four new case reports from california. | four cases of transient anisakiasis in northern california acquired by ingestion of raw fish were reported to health authorities between may 1977 and june 1980. a single phocanema decipiens-like 4th-stage (l4) larva was identified in each of two cases. a recently molted adult male p. decipiens with a fragment of attached l4 cuticle and prominent caudal papillae was recovered from a third person. the latter is the only human case known in which an anisakid worm developed to the adult stage was in ... | 1983 | 6683083 |