Reaginic allergy to Parthenium pollen: evaluation by skin test and RAST.
The pollen of Parthenium hysterophorus, an alien weed growing wild in India was found to be a potential source of allergic rhinitis. A clinical survey showed that 34% of the patients suffering from rhinitis and 12% suffering from bronchial asthma gave positive skin-prick test reactions to Parthenium pollen antigen extracts. Parthenium-specific IgE was detected in the sera of sixteen out of twenty-four patients suffering from seasonal rhinitis. There was 66% correlation between skin test and RAST.
D001249:Asthma / Q000209:etiology* / Q000276:immunology; D006801:Humans; D011058:Pollen; D011852:Radioallergosorbent Test; D006255:Rhinitis, Allergic, Seasonal / Q000209:etiology* / Q000276:immunology; D012882:Skin Tests