Outcomes of allergy to insect stings in children, with and without venom immunotherapy

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 351, Issue 7, 2004, Pages

  Golden, David B K ^a   Kagey Sobotka, Anne ^a   Norman, Philip S ^a   Hamilton, Robert G ^a   Lichtenstein, Lawrence M ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS ASTHMA AND ALLERGY CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSECT VENOM; BEE VENOM;

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG EFFICACY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMMUNOTHERAPY; INSECT ALLERGY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SKIN MANIFESTATION; SYSTEMIC DISEASE; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; DESENSITIZATION; HOSPITALIZATION; HYMENOPTERA; IMMEDIATE TYPE HYPERSENSITIVITY; IMMUNOLOGY; INCIDENCE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INSECT BITE; RECURRENT DISEASE;

ANIMALS; BEE VENOMS; CHILD; DATA COLLECTION; DESENSITIZATION, IMMUNOLOGIC; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYMENOPTERA; HYPERSENSITIVITY, IMMEDIATE; INCIDENCE; INSECT BITES AND STINGS; RECURRENCE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 3943110296     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa022952     Document Type: Article

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