Allergy to Alternaria. I. Clinical aspects.
We studied 66 patients allergic to mould Alternaria. 53% males and 47% females, with 60% diagnosed as having asthma versus 40% rhinitis, only 29% had allergy to Alternaria without any other cutaneous reactivity while 71% were polisensitized, more frequently to D. pteronyssinus, grass pollen, Cladosporium and cat epithelium. We compared the patients allergic to Alternaria with those allergic to grass pollen and D. pteronyssinus.
Granel
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Hospital Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Unit of Allergy, Barcelona, Spain.
Tapias
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Valencia
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Randazzo
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Anglada
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000485:Allergens / Q000276:immunology*; D000528:Alternaria / Q000276:immunology*; D000818:Animals; D002415:Cats / Q000276:immunology; D002648:Child; D002963:Cladosporium / Q000276:immunology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008925:Mites / Q000276:immunology; D011058:Pollen / Q000276:immunology; D011897:Random Allocation; D012130:Respiratory Hypersensitivity / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology* / Q000276:immunology; D012737:Sex Factors; D013172:Spores, Fungal
D000485:Allergens