Allergen Immunotherapy: A Centenary Celebration
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Allergen Immunotherapy: A Centenary Celebration
In 1911 and long before the availability of antiallergic drugs, Leonard Noon demonstrated that prophylactic subcutaneous inoculation with a grass pollen extract was effective in suppressing immediate conjunctival sensitivity to grass pollen.1 Noon’s coworker, John Freeman, continued to practice immunotherapy and in 1930 published the first rush immunotherapy protocol.2 William Frankland, a coll...
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عنوان ژورنال: World Allergy Organization Journal
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1939-4551
DOI: 10.1097/wox.0b013e3182218920