Sensitivity Comparison of the Skin Prick Test and Serum and Fecal Radio Allergosorbent Test (RAST) in Diagnosis of Food Allergy in Children

Background: Diagnosis of food allergy is difficult in children. Food allergies are diagnosed using several methods that include medical histories, clinical examinations, skin prick and serum-specific immunoglobulin E (IgE) tests, radio-allergosorbent test (RAST), food challenge, and supervised elimi...

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Main Authors: Hamid Reza Kianifar, Alireza Pourreza, Farahzad Jabbari Azad, Hadis Yousefzadeh, Fatemeh Masomi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Varastegan Institute for Medical Sciences 2016-05-01
Series:Reports of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
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Online Access:http://rbmb.net/article-1-77-en.pdf