EFFICIENCY OF DIFFERENT SKIN PRICK TESTING METHODS IN THE DIAGNOSIS OF ALLERGY TO DOG
- 1 January 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Vol. 50 (5), 340-344
Abstract
The study of 202 asthmatic children shows that prick testing with standardized dog allergen extract is very useful in the diagnosis of allergy to dog dander. A good correlation was demonstrated with clinical history, RAST [radioallergosorbent test] and the provocation tests. The use of the histamine control system improves the specificity of the prick test when compared with the simple measuring of the mean wheal diameter. End-point titration of the skin prick reactivity did not further improve the specificity when compared with the histamine control system.This publication has 13 references indexed in Scilit:
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