National Reference Laboratory annual literature review on anisakis 2022-23

In order to maintain awareness of any new developments in this field, an annual review of the peer-reviewed literature is undertaken by the UK National Reference Laboratory for Anisakis each year. This short report covers the review undertaken for 2022-3. The search term ‘anisakis OR pseudoterranova’ was entered into Open Athens search engine along with Research Gate, PubMed and Google Scholar. All results were extracted (including title and abstract) into a spreadsheet. The retrieved references were then reviewed and where relevant were divided into the following categories: Presence of Anisakis in European fish stocks and fishery products (Epidemiology). European reports of illness due to Anisakis. Detection methods (for parasites within fishery products). Papers which were tagged as falling under one of these headings were reviewed in more detail, retrieving the full text as necessary and where possible. A synthesis of the findings of these various studies were made. These papers are listed in separate tables in the results section.