Fungal allergens

Current Allergy and Asthma Reports

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 416-423

  Kurup, Viswanath P ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; EPITOPE; FUNGAL PROTEIN; FUNGUS ANTIGEN; HLA ANTIGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E ANTIBODY; MANGANESE SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; MESSENGER RNA; RECOMBINANT ANTIGEN; SERINE PROTEINASE; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; VACCINE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ALLERGIC REACTION; ALLERGY; ALTERNARIA; ANTIGEN PRESENTING CELL; ANTIGEN STRUCTURE; ASCOMYCETES; ASPERGILLUS; ASTHMA; B LYMPHOCYTE; BASIDIOMYCETES; BRONCHOPULMONARY ASPERGILLOMA; CLADOSPORIUM; DEUTEROMYCETES; HUMAN; HYPERSENSITIVITY REACTION; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOMODULATION; IMMUNOPATHOGENESIS; IMMUNOTHERAPY; LUNG FIBROSIS; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOULD; NONHUMAN; PATIENT CARE; PENICILLIUM; RELIABILITY; REVIEW; SERODIAGNOSIS; T LYMPHOCYTE; VACCINATION; YEAST; ZYGOMYCETES; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; FUNGUS; IMMEDIATE TYPE HYPERSENSITIVITY; IMMUNOLOGY; METHODOLOGY;

ALLERGENS; EPITOPES, B-LYMPHOCYTE; EPITOPES, T-LYMPHOCYTE; FUNGI; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY, IMMEDIATE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; IMMUNOTHERAPY; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

EID: 0142026062     PISSN: 15297322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11882-003-0078-6     Document Type: Review

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