IgE cross-reactivity between birch pollen, mugwort pollen and celery is due to at least three distinct cross-reacting allergens: Immunoblot investigation of the birch-mugwort-celery syndrome

Clinical and Experimental Allergy

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 1161-1170

  Bauer, L ^a   Ebner, C ^a   Hirschwehr, R ^a   Wuthrich B ^b   Pichler, C ^c   Fritsch, R ^a   Scheiner, O ^a   Kraft, D ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^d MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Allergy; Birch pollen; Celery; Cross reactivity; Mugwort pollen

Indexed keywords

FOOD ALLERGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; POLLEN ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS REACTION; FOOD ALLERGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOBLOTTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOALLERGOSORBENT TEST;

ALLERGENS; CONTRACTILE PROTEINS; CROSS REACTIONS; FOOD HYPERSENSITIVITY; HUMANS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; PLANT PROTEINS; POLLEN; PROFILINS; VEGETABLES;

EID: 0029809256     PISSN: 09547894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2222.1996.tb00503.x     Document Type: Article

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