[Lepisma saccharina: an unnoticed allergen].
Lepisma saccharina is an ubiquitous insect that mainly lives in bedroom and family room. Even when due to its high tropomyosin content it is able to produce crossed allergic reactions with other insects, its allergenic fractions have not been completely characterized and an allergenic extract with diagnostic purposes has not been developed, so its participation as an etiologic agent in allergic disease has not been established.
Morfín Maciel
Blanca María
BM
Servicio de Alergología, Hospital Mocel, Gelatti 29, col. San Miguel Chapultepec, CP 11850, México, DF.
Mendoza
Froylán
F
D000485:Allergens / Q000276:immunology*; D000818:Animals; D003058:Cockroaches / Q000276:immunology; D003429:Cross Reactions; D004391:Dust; D006798:Housing; D019476:Insect Proteins / Q000276:immunology; D007313:Insecta / Q000276:immunology* / Q000502:physiology; D008800:Mexico; D008925:Mites / Q000276:immunology; D012130:Respiratory Hypersensitivity / Q000209:etiology*; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D013045:Species Specificity; D014335:Tropomyosin / Q000276:immunology
D000485:Allergens; D004391:Dust; D019476:Insect Proteins; D014335:Tropomyosin