Clinical reactivity to insect stings

Current Opinion in Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 349-354

  Ellis, Anne K ^a   Day, James H ^a,b  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b KINGSTON GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Clinical manifestations; Hymenoptera; Hypersensitivity

Indexed keywords

INSECT VENOM; TISSUE EXTRACT;

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ANAPHYLAXIS; ANT; DELAYED HYPERSENSITIVITY; DISEASE COURSE; EDEMA; ERYTHEMA; FAMILY; FIRE ANT; FIRE ANT STING; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HONEY BEEKEEPER; HUMAN; HYMENOPTERA; HYMENOPTERA HYPERSENSITIVITY; HYPERSENSITIVITY; IMMUNOTHERAPY; INSECT ALLERGY; INSECT STING; LEISURE; MASTOCYTOSIS; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOPUSTULE; PUSTULE; REVIEW; TOXICITY; VENOM IMMUNOTHERAPY;

EID: 22544457518     PISSN: 15284050     EISSN: 14736322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.all.0000174159.55756.58     Document Type: Review

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