Role of tropomyosin as a cross-reacting allergen in sensitization to cockroach in patients from MARTINIQUE (French Caribbean Island) with a respiratory allergy to mite and a food allergy to crab and shrimp

European Annals of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 85-88

  Purohit, A ^a   Shao, J ^b   Degreef, J M ^c   Van Leeuwen, A ^d   Van Ree, R ^d   Pauli, G ^a   De Blay, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF STRASBOURG   (France)

^b SHANGHAI SECOND MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Centre Hospitalier Docteur Duchenne   (France)

^d SANQUIN RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Crab; Cross reactivity; Mite; Shrimp; Tropomyosin cockroach

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; TROPOMYOSIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALLERGIC ASTHMA; ALLERGIC RHINITIS; ANGIONEUROTIC EDEMA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COCKROACH; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRAB; CROSS REACTION; FEMALE; FOOD ALLERGY; HUMAN; MALE; MARTINIQUE; MITE; PREVALENCE; RESPIRATORY TRACT ALLERGY; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSITIZATION; SHRIMP; URTICARIA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; BRACHYURA; CHILD; COCKROACHES; FEMALE; FOOD HYPERSENSITIVITY; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; MALE; MARTINIQUE; MIDDLE AGED; PENAEIDAE; PYROGLYPHIDAE; RADIOALLERGOSORBENT TEST; SKIN TESTS; TROPOMYOSIN;

EID: 34147099674     PISSN: 03979148     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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