Disease-specific recombinant allergens for the diagnosis of allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis

International Immunology

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1211-1216

  Crameri, Reto ^a   Hemmann, Stefanie ^a   Ismail, Chaim ^b   Menz, Günter ^b   Blaser, Kurt ^a  

^a SWISS INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND ASTHMA RESEARCH SIAF   (Switzerland)

^b Hochgebirgsklinik ^*  (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis; Allergy; Aspergillus fumigatus; Differential diagnosis; Serology

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN; MANGANESE SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ALLERGIC ASTHMA; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; BRONCHOPULMONARY ASPERGILLOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMAN; LUNG FUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; PHAGE DISPLAY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIZATION; SEROLOGY;

ADULT; ALLERGENS; ASPERGILLOSIS, ALLERGIC BRONCHOPULMONARY; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; ASTHMA; CLONING, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE LIBRARY; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RADIOALLERGOSORBENT TEST; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SKIN TESTS; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

EID: 0031879056     PISSN: 09538178     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/intimm/10.8.1211     Document Type: Article

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