Table. Clinical features of patients who had gastroallergic anisakiasis associated with Anisakis pegreffii infection, Italy*.

Code	Home area of patient, province (region)	Location of nematode	Time since raw seafood ingested	Clinical features	Whole larval nematode or fragment, suspension, condition of specimen	DNA extraction method	Total IgE, IgE-As†
HuC1	Benevento (Campania)	Submucosal layer of gastric wall	2 d	Epigastric pain, edema of oral mucosa	Whole, 99% ethanol, very well conserved	CTAB	1,479, >100
HuC2	Pescara (Abruzzo)	Gastric mucosa	24 h	Epigastric pain, urticaria, generalized edema	Whole, 99% ethanol, well conserved	CTAB	2,180, >100
HuC3	Pescara (Abruzzo)	Lumen of stomach	24 h	Epigastric pain	Fragment, 99% ethanol, well conserved	CTAB	4,727, >100.0
HuC4	Pescara (Abruzzo)	Lumen of stomach	1 d	Epigastric pain, digestive symptoms	Fragment, 99% ethanol, well conserved	CTAB	511, 21.2
HuC5	Pescara (Abruzzo)	Lumen of stomach	1 d	Epigastric pain	Fragment 99% ethanol, well conserved	CTAB	Serum not available
HuC6	Rome (Latium)	Lumen of stomach	1 d	Epigastralgia, urticaria	Fragment 99% ethanol, well conserved	CTAB	Serum not available
HuC7	Pisa (Tuscany)	Lumen of stomach	2 d	Epigastric pain, vomiting	Fragment spoiled, 10% formalin, poorly conserved	Maxwell 16 Promega‡	2,062, 89.3
HuC8	Naples (Campania)	Lumen of stomach	2–3 h	Epigastralgia	Fragment spoiled, 10% formalin, poorly conserved	Maxwell 16 Promega	Serum not available

*Patients are indicated by their codes, HuC1–HuC8; all patients reported having eaten marinated anchovies before onset of illness. CTAB, cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (8).
† Determined by ImmunoCAP ISAC diagnostic test (Phadia, Uppsala, Sweden).
‡Maxwell 16 Instrument System (Promega, Madison, WI, USA)