Basophil Activation Test Reduces Oral Food Challenges to Nuts and Sesame

F. Santos, Alexandra; M. Bergmann, Marcel; A. Brough, Helen; C. Couto-Francisco, Natália; Kwok, Matthew; Panetta, Valentina; Haddad, Diab; Lack, Gideon; Eigenmann, Philippe; Caubet, Jean‐Christoph

doi:10.1016/j.jaip.2020.12.039

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Basophil Activation Test Reduces Oral Food Challenges to Nuts and Sesame

Published in The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology In Practice • Dec 29, 2020

Authors:

Alexandra F. Santos

Marcel M. Bergmann

Helen A. Brough

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Nut allergic patients are often IgE sensitized to other nuts/seeds and need multiple oral food challenges (OFCs) before the safe nuts can be introduced in the diet. However, OFCs are time-consuming and risky procedures. OBJECTIVE: To assess the utility of the basophil activation test (BA...

Subject

Basophil activation

Medicine

Oral food challenge

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