Malassezia SPP.-Specific immunoglobulin E level is a marker for severity of atopic dermatitis in adults

Acta Dermato-Venereologica

Volumn 95, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 191-196

  Glatz, Martin ^a   Buchner, Matthias ^b   Bartenwerffer, Wibke Von ^c   Schmid Grendelmeier, Peter ^a   Worm, Margitta ^d   Hedderich, JüRgen ^b   Fölster Holst, Regina ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^d HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Allergen specific IgE; Atopic dermatitis; Malassezia spp; SCORAD

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMICAL MARKER; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; ALLERGEN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; FUNGUS ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; MALASSEZIA; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIZATION; BLOOD; DERMATITIS, ATOPIC; FOOD HYPERSENSITIVITY; IMMUNOLOGY; INFANT; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RISK FACTOR; SEROLOGY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ALLERGENS; ANTIBODIES, FUNGAL; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DERMATITIS, ATOPIC; FEMALE; FOOD HYPERSENSITIVITY; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; INFANT; MALASSEZIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RISK FACTORS; SEROLOGIC TESTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84928226904     PISSN: 00015555     EISSN: 16512057     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2340/00015555-1864     Document Type: Article

References (40)

1. Bieber T. Atopic dermatitis. N Engl J Med 2008; 358: 1483–1494.
2. Spergel JM. Epidemiology of atopic dermatitis and atopic march in children. Immunol Allergy Clin North Am 2010; 30: 269–280.
3. De Benedetto A, Kubo A, Beck LA. Skin barrier disruption: a requirement for allergen sensitization? J Invest Dermatol 2012; 132: 949–963.
4. Novak N, Leung DY. Advances in atopic dermatitis. Curr Opin Immunol 2011; 23: 778–783.
5. Werfel T. The role of leukocytes, keratinocytes, and allergen-specific IgE in the development of atopic dermatitis. J Invest Dermatol 2009; 129: 1878–1891.
6. Vakirlis E, Lazaridou E, Tzellos TG, Gerou S, Chatzidimitriou D, Ioannides D. Investigation of cytokine levels and their association with SCORAD index in adults with acute atopic dermatitis. J Eur Acad Dermatol Venereol 2011; 25: 409–416.
7. Illi S, von Mutius E, Lau S, Nickel R, Gruber C, Niggemann B, et al. The natural course of atopic dermatitis from birth to age 7 years and the association with asthma. J Allergy Clin Immunol 2004; 113: 925–931.
8. de Benedictis FM, Franceschini F, Hill D, Naspitz C, Simons FE, Wahn U, et al. The allergic sensitization in infants with atopic eczema from different countries. Allergy 2009; 64: 295–303.
9. Tokura Y. Extrinsic and intrinsic types of atopic dermatitis. J Dermatol Sci 2010; 58: 1–7.
10. Fölster-Holst R, Pape M, Buss YL, Christophers E, Weichenthal M. Low prevalence of the intrinsic form of atopic dermatitis among adult patients. Allergy 2006; 61: 629–632.
11. Krathen RA, Hsu S. Failure of omalizumab for treatment of severe adult atopic dermatitis. J Am Acad Dermatol 2005; 53: 338–340.
12. Hanifin JM, Rajka G. Diagnostic features of atopic dermatitis. Acta Derm Venereol 1980; Suppl 92: 44–47.
13. Oranje AP, Glazenburg EJ, Wolkerstorfer A, de Waard-van der Spek FB. Practical issues on interpretation of scoring atopic dermatitis: the SCORAD index, objective SCORAD and the three-item severity score. Br J Dermatol 2007; 157: 645–648.
14. Lange L, Alter N, Keller T, Rietschel E. Sensitization to Malassezia in infants and children with atopic dermatitis: prevalence and clinical characteristics. Allergy 2008; 63: 486–487.
15. Reefer AJ, Satinover SM, Wilson BB, Woodfolk JA. The relevance of microbial allergens to the IgE antibody repertoire in atopic and nonatopic eczema. J Allergy Clin Immunol 2007; 120: 156–163.
16. Schnopp C, Grosch J, Ring J, Ollert M, Mempel M. Microbial allergen-specific IgE is not suitable to identify the intrinsic form of atopic eczema in children. J Allergy Clin Immunol 2008; 121: 267–268.
17. Reijula K, Leino M, Mussalo-Rauhamaa H, Nikulin M, Alenius H, Mikkola J, et al. IgE-mediated allergy to fungal allergens in Finland with special reference to Alternaria alternata and Cladosporium herbarum. Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol 2003; 91: 280–287.
18. Zhang E, Tanaka T, Tajima M, Tsuboi R, Kato H, Nishikawa A, et al. Anti-malassezia-specific IgE antibodies production in Japanese patients with head and neck atopic dermatitis: relationship between the level of specific IgE antibody and the colonization frequency of cutaneous malassezia species and clinical severity. J Allergy (Cairo) 2011; 2011: 645670.
19. Sonesson A, Bartosik J, Christiansen J, Roscher I, Nilsson F, Schmidtchen A, et al. Sensitization to skin-associated microorganisms in adult patients with atopic dermatitis is of importance for disease severity. Acta Derm Venereol 2013; 93: 340–345.
20. Findley K, Oh J, Yang J, Conlan S, Deming C, Meyer JA, et al. Topographic diversity of fungal and bacterial communities in human skin. Nature 2013; 498: 367–370.
21. Gehrmann U, Qazi KR, Johansson C, Hultenby K, Karlsson M, Lundeberg L, et al. Nanovesicles from Malassezia sympodialis and host exosomes induce cytokine responses – novel mechanisms for host-microbe interactions in atopic eczema. PLoS One 2011; 6: e21480.
22. Hiragun T, Ishii K, Hiragun M, Suzuki H, Kan T, Mihara S, et al. Fungal protein MGL_1304 in sweat is an allergen for atopic dermatitis patients. J Allergy Clin Immunol 2013;132: 608–615.
23. Schmid-Grendelmeier P, Fluckiger S, Disch R, Trautmann A, Wuthrich B, Blaser K, et al. IgE-mediated and T cellmediated autoimmunity against manganese superoxide dismutase in atopic dermatitis. J Allergy Clin Immunol 2005; 115: 1068–1075.
24. Balaji H, Heratizadeh A, Wichmann K, Niebuhr M, Crameri R, Scheynius A, et al. Malassezia sympodialis thioredoxinspecific T cells are highly cross-reactive to human thioredoxin in atopic dermatitis. J Allergy Clin Immunol 2011; 128: 92–99.
25. Akdis CA, Akdis M, Bieber T, Bindslev-Jensen C, Boguniewicz M, Eigenmann P, et al. Diagnosis and treatment of atopic dermatitis in children and adults: European Academy of Allergology and Clinical Immunology/American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology/PRACTALL Consensus Report. J Allergy Clin Immunol 2006; 118: 152–169.
26. Darabi K, Hostetler SG, Bechtel MA, Zirwas M. The role of Malassezia in atopic dermatitis affecting the head and neck of adults. J Am Acad Dermatol 2009; 60: 125–136.
27. Kim J, Lee S, Woo SY, Han Y, Lee JH, Lee IY, et al. The indoor level of house dust mite allergen is associated with severity of atopic dermatitis in children. J Korean Med Sci 2013; 28: 74–79.
28. Schafer T, Heinrich J, Wjst M, Adam H, Ring J, Wichmann HE. Association between severity of atopic eczema and degree of sensitization to aeroallergens in schoolchildren. J Allergy Clin Immunol 1999; 104: 1280–1284.
29. Landheer J, Giovannone B, Mattson JD, Tjabringa S, Bruijnzeel-Koomen CA, McClanahan T, et al. Epicutaneous application of house dust mite induces thymic stromal lymphopoietin in nonlesional skin of patients with atopic dermatitis. J Allergy Clin Immunol 2013; 132: 1252–1254.
30. Scalabrin DM, Bavbek S, Perzanowski MS, Wilson BB, Platts-Mills TA, Wheatley LM. Use of specific IgE in assessing the relevance of fungal and dust mite allergens to atopic dermatitis: a comparison with asthmatic and nonasthmatic control subjects. J Allergy Clin Immunol 1999; 104: 1273–1279.
31. Kekki OM, Scheynius A, Poikonen S, Koskinen A, Kautiainen H, Turjanmaa K. Sensitization to Malassezia in children with atopic dermatitis combined with food allergy. Pediatr Allergy Immunol 2013; 24: 244–249.
32. Garmhausen D, Hagemann T, Bieber T, Dimitriou I, Fimmers R, Diepgen T, et al. Characterization of different courses of atopic dermatitis in adolescent and adult patients. Allergy 2013; 68: 498–506.
33. Kusel MM, Holt PG, de Klerk N, Sly PD. Support for 2 variants of eczema. J Allergy Clin Immunol 2005; 116: 1067–1072.
34. Ong PY, Ferdman RM, Church JA. Late-onset of IgE sensitization to microbial allergens in young children with atopic dermatitis. Br J Dermatol 2010; 162: 159–161.
35. Sandstrom Falk MH, Faergemann J. Atopic dermatitis in adults: does it disappear with age? Acta Derm Venereol 2006; 86: 135–139.
36. Ramirez de Knott HM, McCormick TS, Kalka K, Skandamis G, Ghannoum MA, Schluchter M, et al. Cutaneous hypersensitivity to Malassezia sympodialis and dust mite in adult atopic dermatitis with a textile pattern. Contact Dermatitis 2006; 54: 92–99.
37. Chang FY, Lee JH, Yang YH, Yu HH, Wang LC, Lin YT, et al. Analysis of the serum levels of fungi-specific immunoglobulin E in patients with allergic diseases. Int Arch Allergy Immunol 2011; 154: 49–56.
38. Khosravi AR, Bandghorai AN, Moazzeni M, Shokri H, Mansouri P, Mahmoudi M. Evaluation of Candida albicans allergens reactive with specific IgE in asthma and atopic eczema patients. Mycoses 2009; 52: 326–333.
39. Mahoney EJ, Veling MC, Mims JW. Food allergy in adults and children. Otolaryngol Clin North Am 2011; 44: 815–833.
40. Zargari A, Midgley G, Back O, Johansson SG, Scheynius A. IgE-reactivity to seven Malassezia species. Allergy 2003; 58: 306–311.