Table. Anisakiasis characteristics among 16 human patients, South Korea, 2000–2013*.

Patient no.	Patient sex	Year of larvae recovery	No. larvae recovered	Clinical signs and symptoms	Anisakis larvae sequencing results (% identical sites)
					A. simplex s.s.	A. pegreffii
1	M	2000	1	Abdominal pain, nausea	99.2	100
2	M	2000	1	Indigestion, vague gastric pain	99.2	100
3	M	2002	1	Abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting	99.2	100
4	F	2002	1	Abdominal pain and tenderness, anorexia	99.2	100
5	F	2003	1	Epigastric pain, nausea, vomiting	99.2	100
6	M	2003	1	Abdominal pain, indigestion	99.2	100
7	F	2003	1	Abdominal pain, nausea, diarrhea	99.2	100
8	F	2003	1	Abdominal pain, nausea, anorexia	99.2	100
9	F	2004	1	Epigastric pain, abdominal fullness	99.2	100
10	M	2005	1	Abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting	99.2	100
11	F	2005	1	Abdominal pain, indigestion, nausea, vomiting	99.2	100
12	M	2005	1	Abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting	99.2	100
13	M	2005	1	Epigastric pain, indigestion, nausea	99.2	100
14	M	2006	1	Abdominal discomfort, nausea	99.2	100
15	M	2012	1	Abdominal pain and tenderness	100	99.2
16	M	2013	15†	Abdominal pain and tenderness, indigestion, nausea, vomiting, anorexia	99.2	100

*All patients underwent gastroduodenoscopy, during which Anisakis larvae were removed with biopsy forceps.
†Of these 15 larvae, 11 were analyzed by use of molecular techniques.