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Life threatening shrimp allergy cross reacting with mite allergy : a case report

Authors: Farag I Farag-Mahmod, Waheed I Hessam

Published in: Allergy, Asthma & Clinical Immunology | Special Issue 1/2014

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Food allergy is apparently increasing and it is estimated that 3–4% of adults have food allergy. Shrimp is one of the most common causatives in seafood allergy. Patients with shrimp allergy may exhibit life threatening anaphylactic reactions. Tropomyosin is a known important allergen in shrimp. The IgE-binding epitope in shrimp tropomyosin, cross-reacts with other allergenic invertebrate tropomyosins in house dust mites (Der p 10, Der f 10) and cockroaches (Per a 7). …

Title: Life threatening shrimp allergy cross reacting with mite allergy : a case report
Authors: Farag I Farag-Mahmod
Waheed I Hessam
Publication date: 01-03-2014
Publisher: BioMed Central
Published in: Allergy, Asthma & Clinical Immunology / Issue Special Issue 1/2014
Electronic ISSN: 1710-1492
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/1710-1492-10-S1-A9

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