A banana-allergic infant with IgE reactivity to avocado, but not to latex

Pediatrics International

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 321-323

  Ito, Akemi ^a   Ito, Komei ^a   Morishita, Masashi ^a   Sakamoto, Tatsuo ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Avocado; Banana; Cross allergenicity; Cross reactivity; Immunoblotting; Latex

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; LATEX;

ALLERGY TEST; ARTICLE; AVOCADO; BANANA; CASE REPORT; CROSS ALLERGY; FOOD ALLERGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INFANT; MALE; POLLEN; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN MANIFESTATION;

CROSS REACTIONS; FOOD HYPERSENSITIVITY; FRUIT; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; INFANT; LATEX HYPERSENSITIVITY; MALE; MUSA; PERSEA;

EID: 33646742546     PISSN: 13288067     EISSN: 1442200X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-200X.2006.02211.x     Document Type: Article

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