BACKGROUND Anisakis simplex is responsible for allergic symptoms after repeated ingestion or contact with parasitized fish. OBJECTIVE To further analyze type I and IV immunologic mechanisms in a group of patients with allergic reactions to A simplex, we performed prick-by-prick testing with A simplex larvae and patch tests with live, cooked, or frozen larvae of the A simplex parasite. METHO...

Allergic rhinitis is common among children and quite often represents a stage of the atopic march. Although sensitization to food and airborne allergens may appear in infancy and early childhood, symptoms of the disease are usually present after age 3. The aim of this study was to determine the most frequent food and indoor and outdoor respiratory allergens involved in allergic rhinitis in chil...

The use of a respiratory screening questionnaire is recommended annually to screen bakery workers in the UK. We compared questionnaire screening with other methods of detecting workers with asthmatic symptoms and then assessed the significance of these symptoms with careful investigation and follow-up. Reasons for questionnaire failures were then explored. A questionnaire was issued to 362 flou...

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BACKGROUND There appears to be a lack of agreement in the literature on the allergenicity of hen egg proteins. This may be partly due to the use of impure proteins in some cases. Egg yolk proteins have also been largely ignored in such studies. We therefore set out to determine, using especially purified proteins, their relative allergenicity, and to observe whether there were any relationships...

(carbocyclic 2',3 '-didehydro-2',3 '-dideoxyguanosine) are undergoing clinical or preclinical development.^ However, it is still necessary to search for newanti-HIV agents that are more potent and less toxic. Moreover, drug-resistant HIVs continue to emerge rapidly. Oxanosine 1, a novel guanosine analog antibiotic isolated from the culture broth of Streptomyces capreolus MG265CF3 has been repor...

Hypersensitivity reactions are classified into four groups (Type I, II, III, and IV), each characterized by specific biological actions. Research has focused on understanding each hypersensitvity to ensure appropriate therapeutic recommendations are made. This overview will present the defining characteristics of each hypersensitivity and examine the diagnostic methods used to determine the exi...

The evolutionary approach called scatter search originated from strategies for creating composite decision rules and surrogate constraints. Recent studies demonstrate the practical advantages of this approach for solving a diverse array of optimisation problems from both classical and real world settings. Scatter search cont rasts with other evolutionary procedures, such as genetic algorithms, ...