The predictive relationship of food-specific serum IgE concentrations to challenge outcomes for egg and milk varies by patient age

Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Volumn 119, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1272-1274

  Komata, Takatsugu ^a,b   Söderström, Lars ^c   Borres, Magnus P ^c,d   Tachimoto, Hiroshi ^a   Ebisawa, Motohiro ^a  

^a SAGAMIHARA NATIONAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b JIKEI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c Thermo Fisher Scientific   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOOD ALLERGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E ANTIBODY; PLACEBO;

ALLERGIC CONJUNCTIVITIS; ALLERGIC RHINITIS; ASTHMA; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EGG; FOOD ALLERGY; FOOD ANALYSIS; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LETTER; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MILK; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

AGE FACTORS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EGG HYPERSENSITIVITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; INFANT; MALE; MILK HYPERSENSITIVITY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS;

EID: 34247880349     PISSN: 00916749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaci.2007.01.038     Document Type: Letter

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