Allergen sensitization in a birth cohort at mid-childhood: focus on food component IgE and IgG4 responses

Publication date: Available online 1 September 2017
Source:Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
Author(s): Jeffrey M. Wilson, Lisa Workman, Alexander J. Schuyler, Sheryl L. Rifas-Shiman, Emily C. McGowan, Emily Oken, Diane R. Gold, Robert G. Hamilton, Thomas A.E. Platts-Mills

Teaser

Among 616 eight year old children in an unselected birth cohort the authors found strikingly different IgG4/IgE ratios to milk and peanut components. This finding was additionally related to discordant results between an extract and microchip component IgE assay.


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