Skin test reactivity of allergic subjects to basidiomycetes' crude extracts in a tropical environment

Medical Mycology

Volumn 49, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 887-891

  Rivera Mariani, Félix E ^a,b   Nazario Jiménez, Sylvette ^a   Lpez Malpica, Fernando ^a   Bolaos Rosero, Benjamn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Puerto Rico)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Allergic rhinitis; Asthma; Basidiomycetes; Extract; Skin prick test (SPT)

Indexed keywords

BASIDIOMYCETES EXTRACT; FUNGAL EXTRACT; PLANT EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLERGIC RHINITIS; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BASIDIOMYCETES; CHLOROPHYLLUM MOLYBDITE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GANODERMA APPLANATUM; GRASS; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PENICILLIUM; PLANT; PLEUROTUS OSTREATUS; SENSITIZATION; SKIN ALLERGY; SKIN TEST; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST;

ADULT; AGARICALES; ALLERGENS; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, FUNGAL; ASTHMA; COMPLEX MIXTURES; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; FRUITING BODIES, FUNGAL; GANODERMA; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; MALE; MITES; POACEAE; PUERTO RICO; RHINITIS, ALLERGIC, PERENNIAL; SKIN; SKIN TESTS; SPORES, FUNGAL; TROPICAL CLIMATE; YOUNG ADULT;

ACARI; BASIDIOMYCOTA; CHLOROPHYLLUM MOLYBDITES; FUNGI; GANODERMA APPLANATUM; PENICILLIUM; PLEUROTUS OSTREATUS;

EID: 80054688815     PISSN: 13693786     EISSN: 14602709     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/13693786.2011.574238     Document Type: Article

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