Is there a causative role for tetanus toxoid vaccination in the development of allergy-like symptoms and in the increasing prevalence of atopic diseases?

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 63, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 875-886

  Mari, Adriano ^a  

^a National Health Institute   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODY; DIPHTHERIA VACCINE; EPITOPE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E RECEPTOR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN FC FRAGMENT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; PERTUSSIS VACCINE; TETABULIN; TETANUS TOXOID;

ALPHA CHAIN; ARTICLE; ATOPY; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; BREAST FEEDING; BREAST MILK; CELL ACTIVATION; CROSS REACTION; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; HUMAN; MASS IMMUNIZATION; MAST CELL; MEDIATOR RELEASE; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; PLACENTAL TRANSFER; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURIFICATION; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; RESPIRATORY TRACT ALLERGY; RISK; SKIN TEST; TETANUS PROPHYLAXIS; TH2 CELL; URTICARIA; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

CAUSALITY; CLINICAL TRIALS; COMORBIDITY; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY, IMMEDIATE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MODELS, IMMUNOLOGICAL; PREVALENCE; TETANUS TOXOID; VACCINATION;

EID: 5644254468     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2004.04.016     Document Type: Article

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