Current Understanding of Egg Allergy

Pediatric Clinics of North America

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 427-443

  Caubet, Jean Christoph ^a,b   Wang, Julie ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Allergy; Children; Egg; Food; Hypersensitivity; IgE; Ovalbumin; Ovomucoid

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; EGG PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; INFLUENZA VACCINE; INTRALIPID; LYSOZYME; MEASLES MUMPS RUBELLA VACCINE; OVALBUMIN; OVOMUCOID; OVOTRANSFERRIN; PROPOFOL; SERUM ALBUMIN; VACCINE; YELLOW FEVER VACCINE;

ALLERGIC ASTHMA; ANAPHYLAXIS; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; BINDING AFFINITY; CHICKEN MEAT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CROSS REACTION; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIET RESTRICTION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG FORMULATION; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; DRUG SAFETY; EGG ALLERGY; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FOOD ALLERGY; FOOD PACKAGING; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; IMMUNOPATHOGENESIS; INHALATION TEST; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; NONHUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL ASTHMA; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT COUNSELING; PRICK TEST; PROTEIN BINDING; REVIEW; SKIN TEST;

ANIMALS; CHILD; CROSS REACTIONS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EGG HYPERSENSITIVITY; EGG PROTEINS; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; RISK FACTORS; VACCINES;

EID: 79953121696     PISSN: 00313955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pcl.2011.02.014     Document Type: Review

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