Allergy to stings and bites from rare or locally important arthropods: worldwide distribution, available diagnostics, and treatment
Short title: Rare insect allergy
An EAACI position paper of the Working Group on Insect Venom Hypersensitivity
Gunter Johannes Sturm1,2, Elisa Boni3, Darío Antolín-Amérigo4, Maria Beatrice Bilò5,6, Christine Breynaert7,8, Filippo Fassio9, Kymble Spriggs10,11,12, Arantza Vega13,14, Luisa Ricciardi15, Lisa Arzt-Gradwohl1, Wolfgang Hemmer16
1Department of Dermatology and Venereology, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria2Allergy Outpatient Clinic Reumannplatz, Vienna, Austria
3Allergy and Immunology Department, Metropolitan Laboratory AUSL Bologna, Maggiore Hospital, Bologna, Italy4Allergy Department, Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal, Instituto Ramón y Cajal de Investigación Sanitaria (IRYCIS), Madrid, Spain.5Department of Clinical and Molecular Sciences, Marche Polytechnic University, Ancona, Italy6Allergy Unit, Department of Internal Medicine, Ospedali Riuniti Ancona University Hospital, Ancona, Italy7Department of General Internal Medicine - Allergy and Clinical Immunology, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.8KU Leuven Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Transplantation, Allergy and Clinical Immunology Research Group, Leuven, Belgium.9Allergy and Clinical Immunology Unit, Ospedale San Giovanni di Dio, Azienda USL Toscana Centro, Florence, Italy10Department of Allergy & Immunology, Monash Medical Centre, Clayton, Australia11Department of Allergy & Immunology, The Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville, Australia12Department of Medicine, Melbourne Medical School, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia.13Allergy Department, University Hospital of Guadalajara, Spain.14ARADyAL Spanish Thematic Network and Co-operative Research Centre RD16/0006/002315Allergy and Clinical Immunology Unit, AOU Policlinico G.Martino, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Messina, Messina, Italy16FAZ - Floridsdorf Allergy Center, Vienna, Austria
*Correspondence to: Prof. Gunter Sturm, MD, PhD (0000-0002-7245-121X), Department of Dermatology and Venereology, Medical University of Graz, Auenbruggerplatz 8, 8036 Graz, Austria, Phone: +43/316/385-80318; Fax: +43/316/385-12466; Email: gunter.sturm@medunigraz.at
Funding: EAACI Task Force funding