Utility of peanut-specific IgE levels in predicting the outcome of double-blind, placebo-controlled food challenges

Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Volumn 125, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1391-1392

  van Nieuwaal, Nancy H G ^a   Lasfar, Wafae ^a   Meijer, Yolanda ^a   Kentie, Petra A ^a   Flinterman, Annebeth E ^a   Pasmans, Suzanne G A M ^b   Knulst, André C ^b   Hoekstra, Maarten O ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; PLACEBO;

ADOLESCENT; ALLERGIC RHINITIS; ANGIONEUROTIC EDEMA; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ASTHMA; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NETHERLANDS; PEANUT; PEANUT ALLERGY; PREDICTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROVOCATION TEST; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; REFERENCE VALUE; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STRIDOR; URTICARIA; VOMITING;

ALLERGENS; ARACHIS HYPOGAEA; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; MALE; PEANUT HYPERSENSITIVITY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEROLOGIC TESTS; SKIN TESTS;

EID: 77952743913     PISSN: 00916749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaci.2010.01.057     Document Type: Letter

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