When antibodies of class IgE against the peanut proteins Ara h2 and Ara h6 are detected in a patient sample, this finding points with high probability to a clinical peanut allergy. After eating a peanut, the binding between IgE antibodies…
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In persons with type I allergies, the immune system forms IgE antibodies at first contact with a usually harmless substance (allergen) from the environment, e.g. against certain proteins in pollen, animal hair or food. At every further contact, the binding…
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In the current issue of the medical journal Trillium Diagnostik (14(3): 172-173), Prof Dr Rudolf Gruber and Dr Gabriele Egert, experts for laboratory diagnostic…
Two children, Lisa and Tom, are tested for different food allergies with a skin test by an allergist at the same day, since both children complain about various…
Peanut allergies belong to the most frequent food allergies which already establish during infancy. Contact with the allergen often causes severe systemic react…
The product range for molecular allergy diagnostics on the basis of defined partial allergens (DPA-Dx) has been extended by the new EUROLINE Insect Venoms 2 for…