Adjusting wheal size measures to correct atopy misclassification

PURPOSE: Skin prick testing (SPT) is fundamental to the practice of clinical allergy identifying relevant allergens and predicting the clinical expression of disease. Wheal sizes on SPT are used to identify atopic cases, and the cut-off value for a positive test is commonly set at 3 mm. However, the...

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Autores principales: Zhang, Hongmei, Karmaus, Wilfried, Gan, Jianjun, Bao, Weichao, Zhao, Yan D, Rahardja, Dewi, Holloway, John W, Scott, Martha, Arshad, Syed Hasan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dove Medical Press 2011
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Methodology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3160870/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21887114
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/IJGM.S22193

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3160870/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21887114
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/IJGM.S22193

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