Could slightly cooked egg be a suitable medium for oral immunotherapy in persistent hen's egg allergy?

Allergologia et Immunopathologia

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 141-142

  Badina, L ^a   Matarazzo, L ^a   Longo, G ^a   Barbi, E ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH IRCCS BURLO GAROFOLO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EGG WHITE; GLUTEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; OVOMUCOID;

ALLERGENICITY; ALLERGIC REACTION; EDITORIAL; EGG; EGG ALLERGY; FOLLOW UP; FOOD INTAKE; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; ORAL IMMUNOTHERAPY; PEANUT ALLERGY;

ALLERGENS; DESENSITIZATION, IMMUNOLOGIC; EGG HYPERSENSITIVITY; EGGS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 84878108575     PISSN: 03010546     EISSN: 15781267     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aller.2012.12.003     Document Type: Editorial

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