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Clinical manifestations and cross-reactions between cockroaches and termites and identification of termites' major allergens
2024-07-16
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<h4>Background: </h4> : The American cockroach ( Periplaneta Americana, CraA) is a strong risk factor for allergic sensitization and asthma morbidity. Molecular phylogenetic studies demonstrated termites are social cockroaches specialized in feeding on plant materials. We hypothesized that termite allergies may be misdiagnosed as cockroach allergies due to cross-reactivity in routine clinical tests. Herein, we de...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 717abb33-1ebc-5997-bab4-226664aabde3
- DOI
- 10.22541/au.172114976.64707265/v1
