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Volume 21, Number 2—February 2015
Dispatch

Molecular Diagnosis of Cause of Anisakiasis in Humans, South Korea

Hyemi Lim1, Bong-Kwang Jung1, Jaeeun Cho, Thanapon Yooyen, Eun-Hee Shin, and Jong-Yil ChaiComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea (H. Lim, B.-K. Jung, J. Cho, E.H. Shin, J.-Y. Chai); Thaksin University, Phatthalung, Thailand (T. Yooyen)

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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.

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1These authors contributed equally to this article.

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