Clinical allergy.
Discontinued
Publisher:
Blackwell Scientific Publications.. Oxford : Blackwell Scientific Publications
Frequency: Bimonthly
Country: England
Language: English
Author(s):
British Allergy Society.
Start Year:1971 - 1988
Identifiers
| ISSN: | 0009-9090 (Print) 0009-9090 (Linking) |
| NLM ID: | 0311172 |
| (DNLM): | C24700000(s) |
| (OCoLC): | 01437359 |
| Coden: | CLAGBI |
| Classification: | W1 CL65K |
RAST in the diagnosis of hypersensitivity to horse allergens. A comparison with clinical history and in vivo tests. Case history, skin tests and RAST were compared in a group (n = 40) of children with a history suggesting allergy to horses and in a group (n = 43) in whom there was no suspicion of hypersensitivity to horses. There was an agreement of 91% between case history and prick test. The same magnitude of agreement was found between case history and RAST (89%), and the agreement between RAST and prick test was 90%. The results of this investigation are clearly in contrast to earlier earlier reports, in that there was a very good correlation between prick test, RAST and case history. The results sugges...