Chronic idiopathic urticaria (CIU) and Helicobacter pylori - Not directly causative, but could there be a link?

Allergy and Clinical Immunology International

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 23-26

  Greaves, M W ^a  

^a ST THOMAS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; AUTOANTIBODY; CLARITHROMYCIN; FC RECEPTOR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E RECEPTOR; LANSOPRAZOLE; OMEPRAZOLE;

ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CHRONIC URTICARIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; INCIDENCE; MOLECULAR MIMICRY; PATHOGENICITY; REMISSION;

EID: 0035114485     PISSN: 08381925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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