A lurking threat: transfer of peanut allergy through peripheral blood stem cell transplantation

Background There exist several reports of atopy and allergen-specific IgE-mediated hypersensitivity transferred by bone marrow transplantation, and it has been concluded that the transfer of allergic reactivity results from adoptive transfer of IgE-producing donor-derived B- and/or plasma cells. To...

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Main Authors: Birka Brauns, Michael P. Schön, Gerald Wulf, Martin Mempel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2016-01-01
Series:World Allergy Organization Journal
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1939455119301619