Prevalence of hypersensitivity to specific fungal allergens as determined by intradermal dilutional testing

Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 125, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 491-494

  Stroud, Robert H ^a   Calhoun, Karen H ^a   Wright, Steven T ^a   Kennedy, Kyle L ^b  

^a University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

^b Ctr Dis of the Nose and Sinuses   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; FUNGUS; HUMAN; IMMEDIATE TYPE HYPERSENSITIVITY; IMMUNOLOGY; INTRACUTANEOUS TEST; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; RHINITIS; SINUSITIS;

ADULT; ALLERGENS; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; FUNGI; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY, IMMEDIATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RHINITIS; SINUSITIS; SKIN TEST END-POINT TITRATION;

EID: 0035512131     PISSN: 01945998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mhn.2001.119969     Document Type: Article

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