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- Title
Latex-jujube cross-reactivity: case report and immunological study.
- Authors
Lombardi, C.; Mistrello, G.; Roncarolo, D.; Senna, G.; Passalacqua, G.
- Abstract
Describes a case of life-threatening cross reactivity between latex and jujube in a 25-year-old nurse. Performance of an immunological study on serum of patient after extracting Jujube fruits and latex sap; IgE-reactivity of the serum against jujube and latex extracts; Presence of a 20 kD prohevein-like protein in both extracts confirming the existence of latex-jujube cross-reactivity.
- Subjects
ALLERGIES; CROSS reactions (Immunology); JUJUBE (Plant); LATEX allergy; PLANT extracts; IMMUNOLOGY
- Publication
Allergy, 2005, Vol 60, Issue 7, p971
- ISSN
0105-4538
- Publication type
Other
- DOI
10.1111/j.1398-9995.2005.00829.x