Immunotherapy: An option in the management of occupational asthma?

Current Opinion in Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 96-100

  Sastre, Joaquín ^a,b   Quirce, Santiago ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b Hospital UniversitarioFundación Jiménez Díaz   (Spain)

Author keywords

Baker's asthma; Etiologic treatment; Immunotherapy; Latex allergy; Occupational asthma

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; DIIIA ANTIGEN; EI M ANTIGEN; GI REP ANTIGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; LATEX; PLACEBO; PLANT EXTRACT; RAT EPITHELIUM EXTRACT; TISSUE EXTRACT; TRIPLOCHYTON SCLEROXYLON EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VENOM; WHEAT FLOUR EXTRACT;

ALLERGIC RHINITIS; ALLERGY; ASCIDIACEA; CLINICAL TRIAL; DERMATOLOGY; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG SAFETY; FLOUR; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; IMMUNOTHERAPY; INJECTION SITE REACTION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NONHUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL ASTHMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY EPITHELIUM; RESPIRATORY TRACT ALLERGY; REVIEW; RHINOCONJUNCTIVITIS; RISK FACTOR; SEA SQUIRT; SKIN ALLERGY; SYSTEMIC DISEASE; TREATMENT RESPONSE; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; WHEAT; WHEAT ALLERGY; WOOD; ANIMAL; ASTHMA; HYPERSENSITIVITY; IMMUNOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE;

ANIMALS; ASTHMA; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY; IMMUNOTHERAPY; LATEX HYPERSENSITIVITY; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES;

EID: 33746811467     PISSN: 15284050     EISSN: 14736322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.all.0000216851.10571.64     Document Type: Review

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