Discontinuing venom immunotherapy: Outcome after five years

Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Volumn 97, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 579-587

  Golden, David B K ^a   Kwiterovich, Kathleen A ^a   Kagey Sobotka, Anne ^a   Valentine, Martin D ^a   Lichtenstein, Lawrence M ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

anaphylaxis; Hymenoptera; immunotherapy; insect sting; venom

Indexed keywords

INSECT VENOM;

ALLERGIC REACTION; ANAPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVENOMATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOTHERAPY; INSECT STING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROVOCATION TEST; RADIOALLERGOSORBENT TEST; SKIN SENSITIVITY; SKIN TEST;

EID: 0030058309     PISSN: 00916749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0091-6749(96)70302-0     Document Type: Article

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