Glucoamylase: Another fungal enzyme associated with baker's asthma

Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology

Volumn 89, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 197-202

  Quirce, Santiago ^a   Fernández Nieto, Mar ^a   Bartolomé, Borja ^b   Bombín, Cristina ^a   Cuevas, Manuela ^c   Sastre, Joaquín ^a  

^a Hospital UniversitarioFundación Jiménez Díaz   (Spain)

^b Bial Aristegui Research and Development Department   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL RAMÓN Y CAJAL   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLASE; CELLULASE; FUNGAL ENZYME; GLUCAN 1,4 ALPHA GLUCOSIDASE; HEMICELLULASE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ALLERGIC ASTHMA; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS; ASPERGILLUS NIGER; CASE REPORT; CROSS REACTION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME KINETICS; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; FERMENTATION TECHNIQUE; HUMAN; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOGLOBULIN STRUCTURE; IMMUNOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL ASTHMA; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRICK TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT ALLERGY;

EID: 0036706793     PISSN: 10811206     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1081-1206(10)61938-2     Document Type: Article

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