Cockroach allergens: Coping with challenging complexity

Affiliations

¹ Allergy and Asthma Center Westend, Outpatient Department and Clinical Research Center Hanf, Ackermann & Kleine-Tebbe, Berlin, Germany. Electronic address: kleine-tebbe@allergie-experten.de.
² Johns Hopkins Dermatology, Allergy and Clinical Immunology Reference Laboratory, Johns Hopkins Asthma and Allergy Center, Baltimore, Md.
³ Department of Food Science & Technology, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Neb.

Editorial

Jörg Kleine-Tebbe et al. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2019 Apr.

. 2019 Apr;143(4):1342-1344.

doi: 10.1016/j.jaci.2019.01.028. Epub 2019 Feb 2.

¹ Allergy and Asthma Center Westend, Outpatient Department and Clinical Research Center Hanf, Ackermann & Kleine-Tebbe, Berlin, Germany. Electronic address: kleine-tebbe@allergie-experten.de.
² Johns Hopkins Dermatology, Allergy and Clinical Immunology Reference Laboratory, Johns Hopkins Asthma and Allergy Center, Baltimore, Md.
³ Department of Food Science & Technology, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Neb.

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Keywords: Cockroach allergy; allergen immunotherapy; cockroach allergen components; diagnosis; nonstandardized extracts.

Comment on

Allergen content in German cockroach extracts and sensitization profiles to a new expanded set of cockroach allergens determine in vitro extract potency for IgE reactivity.
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