Latex-fruit syndrome

Current Allergy and Asthma Reports

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 47-53

  Blanco, Carlos ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE GRAN CANARIA DR NEGRÍN   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHITINASE; FOOD ALLERGEN; HEVEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; LATEX; VEGETABLE PROTEIN; ALLERGEN; PATHOGENESIS RELATED PROTEINS, PLANT; PATHOGENESIS-RELATED PROTEINS, PLANT;

ANTIBODY DETECTION; AVOCADO; BANANA; CHESTNUT; CROSS REACTION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FOOD ALLERGY; FOOD INTAKE; FRUIT; HUMAN; HYPERSENSITIVITY; KIWIFRUIT; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; PROVOCATION TEST; RADIOALLERGOSORBENT TEST; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SENSITIZATION; SKIN TEST; ALLERGY; IMMEDIATE TYPE HYPERSENSITIVITY; PHYSIOLOGY; SYNDROME;

ALLERGENS; CROSS REACTIONS; FOOD HYPERSENSITIVITY; FRUIT; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY, IMMEDIATE; LATEX HYPERSENSITIVITY; PLANT PROTEINS; SYNDROME;

EID: 0038121155     PISSN: 15297322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11882-003-0012-y     Document Type: Review

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