Allergy and parasites reevaluated: Wide-scale induction of chronic urticaria by the ubiquitous fish-nematode Anisakis simplex in an endemic region

Allergologia et Immunopathologia

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 31-37

  Daschner, A ^a   Vega De La Osada, F ^a   Pascual, C Y ^b  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE LA PRINCESA   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL INFANTIL LA PAZ   (Spain)

Author keywords

Chronic urticaria; Food allergy; Immunoglobulin isotypes; Nematode; Parasite; Specific IgG; Specific IgG4

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G4 ANTIBODY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ALLERGY; ANGIONEUROTIC EDEMA; ANISAKIASIS; ANISAKIS; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; CHRONIC URTICARIA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PARASITOSIS; SENSITIZATION; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; URTICARIA;

EID: 16444365542     PISSN: 03010546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1157/13070606     Document Type: Article

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