TY - JOUR
T1 - A case of immediate allergy to Anisakis following saury intake
AU - Kameyama, Rina
AU - Yagami, Akiko
AU - Yamakita, Takashi
AU - Nakagawa, Mamiko
AU - Nagase, Keizou
AU - Ichikawa, Hidetaka
AU - Matsunaga, Kayoko
N1 - Funding Information:
Authors acknowledge the Director of CSIR-CGCRI, Kolkata, India for providing instrumental facilities to characterize the developed materials. One of the authors (SSG) gives special thanks to CSIR-HRDG, India for offering him fellowship (CSIR-SRF). Authors are grateful to Mr. P. Sur of Sur Enamel and Stamping Works Pvt. Ltd, Kolkata for providing the heating facility of IAO sol coated glass slides of dimension 500 mm X 500 mm.
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - We report here a 76-year-old male that presented with an immediate allergy to Anisakis following saury intake. Three and a half hours after eating pressed saury sushi, whole-body pomphus appeared including itching, facial dropsical swelling, and dyspnea. Diagnostic tests revealed specific IgE antibodies against anisakis simplex and a skin prick test was positive using an extraction of anisakis simplex. The results of skin prick tests using the body and internal organs of a saury were negative. Based on these results, we diagnosed the case as immediate allergy to Anisakis. Anisakis is parasitic to a diverse array of fish, and it seems rare that eating saury will induce an allergic response because the reported parasitic rate of Anisakis on saury is only 5%. In addition, as tropomyosin is currently considered to be the primary cause of allergies to Anisakis, renewed attention should be paid to other foods for which tropomyosin is also assumed to be a common antigen.
AB - We report here a 76-year-old male that presented with an immediate allergy to Anisakis following saury intake. Three and a half hours after eating pressed saury sushi, whole-body pomphus appeared including itching, facial dropsical swelling, and dyspnea. Diagnostic tests revealed specific IgE antibodies against anisakis simplex and a skin prick test was positive using an extraction of anisakis simplex. The results of skin prick tests using the body and internal organs of a saury were negative. Based on these results, we diagnosed the case as immediate allergy to Anisakis. Anisakis is parasitic to a diverse array of fish, and it seems rare that eating saury will induce an allergic response because the reported parasitic rate of Anisakis on saury is only 5%. In addition, as tropomyosin is currently considered to be the primary cause of allergies to Anisakis, renewed attention should be paid to other foods for which tropomyosin is also assumed to be a common antigen.
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M3 - Article
C2 - 17159434
AN - SCOPUS:33846105770
SN - 0021-4884
VL - 55
SP - 1429
EP - 1432
JO - Japanese Journal of Allergology
JF - Japanese Journal of Allergology
IS - 11
ER -