Latex is not essential in a standardized skin prick test battery

Allergy: European Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 407-408

  Bousquet, P J ^a   Gallega, M P ^a   Dhivert Donnadieu, H ^a   Demoly, P ^a  

^a MONTPELLIER UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Allergic patients; Allergy; Latex; Skin prick test

Indexed keywords

LATEX;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALLERGY; ALLERGY TEST; ALTERNARIA; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS; CHILD; CLADOSPORIUM; COCKROACH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMATOPHAGOIDES FARINAE; DERMATOPHAGOIDES PTERONYSSINUS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DOG; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERIALS; PENICILLIUM; POLLEN; PREVALENCE; PRICK TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS REACTIONS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DUST; FOOD HYPERSENSITIVITY; HUMANS; INFANT; LATEX; LATEX HYPERSENSITIVITY; MIDDLE AGED; MITES; POLLEN; SKIN TESTS;

EID: 14344256484     PISSN: 01054538     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1398-9995.2004.00667.x     Document Type: Article

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