Phase 1 results of safety and tolerability in a rush oral immunotherapy protocol to multiple foods using Omalizumab

Allergy, Asthma and Clinical Immunology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Bégin, Philippe ^a   Dominguez, Tina ^a   Wilson, Shruti P ^a   Bacal, Liane ^a   Mehrotra, Anjuli ^a   Kausch, Bethany ^a   Trela, Anthony ^a   Tavassoli, Morvarid ^a   Hoyte, Elisabeth ^a   O'Riordan, Gerri ^a   Blakemore, Alanna ^a   Seki, Scott ^a   Hamilton, Robert G ^b   Nadeau, Kari C ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Desensitization; Efficacy; Food allergy; Multiple food allergy; Omalizumab; Oral immunotherapy (OIT); Safety; Specific Oral Tolerance Induction (SOTI)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894583977     PISSN: 17101484     EISSN: 17101492     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1710-1492-10-7     Document Type: Article

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