Abstract

AF Santos, NL Barbosa-Morais, BK Hurlburt. Allergy. doi: 10.1111/all.14301 To identify why some patients with peanut IgE clinically react to peanut (peanut allergy) while others are tolerant (peanut sensitized) by studying differences in IgE and IgG4 binding to peanut allergen epitopes. The study population consisted of 108 participants. Fifty-six were classified as peanut allergic, confirmed by either oral food challenge (OFC) or by skin prick test (SPT) wheal greater than 8 mm or peanut specific IgE greater than 15 kU/L; 42 peanut sensitized patients determined by SPT with wheal size ≥1 mm and/or peanut specific IgE …

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