Parasitic Infections in Children with Chronic Spontaneous Urticaria
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Parasitic Infections in Children with Chronic Spontaneous Urticaria.
BACKGROUND Parasites have been proposed to be an underlying cause of chronic spontaneous urticaria (CSU) in childhood, but a clear causal relationship between them has not been established. This study aimed to investigate the prevalence of parasitic infection-related CSU (PIRCSU) in children and to determine the factors associated with PIRCSU. METHOD Data from 211 children with CSU were analy...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Archives of Allergy and Immunology
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1018-2438,1423-0097
DOI: 10.1159/000450953