Egg allergy: Are all childhood food allergies the same?

Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 214-218

  Allen, Clare Wendy ^a,b   Campbell, Dianne Elizabeth ^a,b   Kemp, Andrew Stewart ^a,b  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL AT WESTMEAD   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Anaphylaxis; Egg hypersensitivity; Egg protein; Milk hypersensitivity; Peanut hypersensitivity

Indexed keywords

FOOD ALLERGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; INFLUENZA VACCINE; LYSOZYME; MEASLES MUMPS RUBELLA VACCINE; OVALBUMIN; OVOMUCOID; OVOTRANSFERRIN;

ALLERGENICITY; ANAPHYLAXIS; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; DELAYED HYPERSENSITIVITY; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; EGG ALLERGY; EXPOSURE; FOOD ALLERGY; HUMAN; MILK ALLERGY; PEANUT ALLERGY; PREVALENCE; PRICK TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSITIZATION; SKIN TEST; STOMACH ACID SECRETION; STOMACH PH;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EGG HYPERSENSITIVITY; HUMANS; NEW SOUTH WALES;

EID: 34147110867     PISSN: 10344810     EISSN: 14401754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1754.2007.00996.x     Document Type: Review

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