Healthy adults demonstrate less skin reactivity to commercial extracts of commonly ingested food than to D. farinae

Asian Pacific Journal of Allergy and Immunology

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 175-178

  Chng, Hiok H ^a   Tang, Chwee Y ^a   Leong, Khai P ^a  

^a TAN TOCK SENG HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOOD ALLERGEN; HOUSE DUST ALLERGEN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHINESE; DERMATOPHAGOIDES FARINAE; FEMALE; FOOD ALLERGY; HOUSE DUST ALLERGY; HUMAN; INDIAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONGOLOID RACE; PRICK TEST; SKIN MANIFESTATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALLERGENS; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, DERMATOPHAGOIDES; DUST; FEMALE; FOOD; FOOD HANDLING; FOOD HYPERSENSITIVITY; GLYCOPROTEINS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITES; SINGAPORE; SKIN TESTS;

EID: 0032756828     PISSN: 0125877X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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