TABLE 1.
Food fish and cephalopods reported to have been eaten by allergic patients suffering from anaphylaxis in Spain
| Host species | No. of outbreaks from indicated citya
|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total no. of patients
|
C
|
NC
|
Ca (A) | ||||
| A | B | A | B | A | B | ||
| Hake (Merluccius merluccius) | 23 | 2 | 22 | 2 | 2 | ||
| Anchovy (Engraulis encrasicholus) | 16 | 8 | 5 | 11 | 8 | ||
| Codfish (Gadus morhua) | 7 | 7 | |||||
| Tuna (Sarda sarda) and striped tunny (Thunnus thynnus) | 6 | 6 | 4 | ||||
| Sardine (Sardina pilchardus) | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Squid (Illex coindetii and Toradopsis eblanae) | 3 | ||||||
| Horse mackerel (Trachurus picturatus) | 3 | 1 | |||||
| Megrim (Lepidorhombus boscii) | 2 | ||||||
a
C, cooked fish eaten; NC, fish eaten was not cooked; Ca, canned fish eaten; A, Vitoria-Gasteiz (Basque Country, Spain) (27); B, Burgos (Castilla-León Comunity, Spain) (99). Note that the total number of patients is not necessarily the sum of C plus NC plus Ca because some cases presented more than one episode of allergy with different fish preparations.