Not all shellfish "allergy" is allergy!

Clinical and Translational Allergy

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-7

  Woo, Chee K ^a   Bahna, Sami L ^a  

^a Louisiana State University School of Medicine Shreveport   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPINEPHRINE; FOOD ALLERGEN; TROPOMYOSIN;

AGE; ALLERGENICITY; ALLERGY; ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; ANTIGENICITY; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CROSS REACTION; CRUSTACEA; DISEASE SEVERITY; FOOD INTAKE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMMUNOTHERAPY; IN VITRO STUDY; LIFE THREAT; MEDICAL HISTORY; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROVOCATION TEST; REVIEW; SHELLFISH; SHELLFISH ALLERGY; SHELLFISH POISONING; SKIN TEST; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VIRAL CONTAMINATION;

EID: 85006269364     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2045-7022-1-3     Document Type: Review

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