Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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3339886 | Allergologia et Immunopathologia | 2014 | 7 Pages |
Abstract
Sensitisation to inhalant allergens is present in 76% of allergy clinics' patients with rhinitis or rhinosinusitis. Our results confirm previous observations showing that mites constitute the most important cause of respiratory allergy in tropical settings and suggest that mite allergen cross-reactivity is responsible for the positivity of skin tests to mites not present in the patient's environment since the species Glycyphagus, Chortoglyphus, Acarus, Lepidoglyphus and Tyrophagus have not been found in Caracas house dust.
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Authors
M. Sánchez-Borges, E. Fernández-Caldas, A. Capriles-Hulett, F. Caballero-Fonseca,