Background The new anti allergic vaccine is based on purified allergens from Dermatophagoides siboney and the combination adjuvant containing a TLR-4 ligand and alum. We propose that IgG1/IgE ratio is effective to assess the clinical efficacy of this experimental vaccine. Aim: To evaluate the immunogenicity of formulation variants of a D. siboney adjuvanted vaccine with varying levels of allerg...

Background Atopic dermatitis is a multifactorial disease associated with elevated production of IgE and sensitization to multiple food and inhalant allergens.The aim of this study was to assess the levels of total serum IgE (IgE) and specific IgE (sp IgE ) for Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus (Dp), Blomia tropicalis (Bt), egg white, casein, alpha-lactalbumin and beta-lactoglobulin in patients wit...

Clinical and laboratory studies on bronchial asthma in 200 Nigerian children who were seen during a 2 1/2-year period in Ibadan are described. Contrary to reports that the condition is rare in African children, after pulmonary tuberculosis, asthma is the next most common chronic chest disease in Ibadan. While many features of the disease are similar to those seen elsewhere, skin tests indicate ...

Background Th1/Tr1 promoting adjuvants, in allergen-specific vaccines, could be a valuable alternative to the current allergen immunotherapy. It is now the pro-Th1 adjuvant effect of Neisseria meningitidis proteoliposome (PL). Previous studies in a prophylactic murine model of respiratory allergy the vaccine showed its immunogenicity and safety. To assess the immunogenicity and non-clinical saf...

Background Pharmacovigilance studies are helpful to follow the use of allergen immunotherapy in clinical practice. Industrially manufactured allergen vaccines (VALERGEN) of three mite species (including the tropical species Dermatophagoides siboney and Blomia tropicalis) have been recently introduced country-wide in Cuba for asthma treatment. To assess the safety and efficacy of allergen immuno...

Methods Children between 2 and 14 year old were submitted to a parasitological survey using the Hoffman, Pons e Janer (3 blades) method and the Kato-Katz (2 blades) method. The ISAAC questionnaire was applied to collect informations related to asthma. The Skin Prick Test was applied using extracts of Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus (DP), Blomia tropicalis (BT), Blatella germânica (BG), Periplane...

In the 90's of the XX century, 2 new and important allergens of house dust mites mites were cloned and sequenced: Mag 1 and Mag 3. However, the second allergen has been identified to date only in extracts of Dermatophagoides farinae [DF ]. In this work, we aimed to detect expression of this important allergen and for the first time analyze to the amino acid sequence in other species of house du...

Serum IgE assay is a mainstay step in the allergy work up. Allergenic extracts and molecular components are available at present. This real life study compared the serum specific IgE levels against allergenic extracts with allergenic molecules in patients allergic to Parietaria, Betulaceae, and mites. This retrospective real life study included 489 subjects with respiratory allergy. Inclusion c...

BACKGROUND Skin prick test (SPT) and specific IgE (sIgE) are approved for evaluation of allergen sensitization. Local allergen extracts are less expensive and more available but need to be standardized. OBJECTIVE To compare SPT results of local and imported allergen extracts and sIgE levels in response to the American cockroach, dog, cat, Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus (Dp), Dermatophagoides ...