Letter to the Editor

Pediatric Allergy and Immunology

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 274-

  Fiocchi, Alessandro ^a   Bouygue, Bob ^a   Sala, Marco ^a   Travaini, Marta ^a   Eigenmann, Philippe A ^b   Sampson, Hugh A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

^c MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOOD ALLERGEN; ALLERGEN;

DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FOOD ALLERGY; HUMAN; LETTER; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRICK TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN PRICK TEST; URTICARIA; CHILD; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; SKIN TEST; STANDARD; STATISTICS; DIET; RADIOALLERGOSORBENT TEST; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SCREENING TEST;

ALLERGENS; CHILD; FOOD HYPERSENSITIVITY; HUMANS; REFERENCE STANDARDS; SKIN TESTS;

EID: 0033219555     PISSN: 09056157     EISSN: 13993038     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-3038.1999.00049-2.x     Document Type: Letter

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