Oral Peanut Challenge Identifies an Allergy but the Peanut Allergen Threshold Sensitivity Is Not Reproducible

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Glaumann, Susanne ^a,b   Nopp, Anna ^a   Johansson, S G O ^a   Borres, Magnus P ^c,d   Nilsson, Caroline ^a,b  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b SACHS CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c Thermo Fisher Scientific   (United States)

^d SAHLGRENSKA ACADEMY AT UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOOD ALLERGEN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CD SENS TEST; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNE FUNCTION TEST; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PEANUT; PEANUT ALLERGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROVOCATION TEST; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCHOOL CHILD; SCORING SYSTEM;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ADOLESCENT; ALLERGENS; ARACHIS HYPOGAEA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGIC TESTS; MALE; PEANUT HYPERSENSITIVITY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; YOUNG ADULT;

ARACHIS HYPOGAEA;

EID: 84872256055     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0053465     Document Type: Article

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