Oral Immunotherapy for Treatment of Egg Allergy in Children

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Authors

A. Wesley Burks · Duke Medical Center

Stacie M. Jones · Arkansas Children's Hospital

Robert A. Wood · Johns Hopkins University

David M. Fleischer · National Jewish Health

Scott H. Sicherer · Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Robert Lindblad · Emmes (United States)

Donald M. Stablein

Abstract

These results show that oral immunotherapy can desensitize a high proportion of children with egg allergy and induce sustained unresponsiveness in a clinically significant subset. (Funded by the National Institutes of Health; ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT00461097.).

Topics & Keywords

Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Research Allergic Rhinitis and Sensitization Asthma and respiratory diseases

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Good health and well-being

Publication Details

Published in: New England Journal of Medicine

Volume 367, Issue 3, pp. 233-243

DOI: 10.1056/nejmoa1200435

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