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Parasitic Infections in Children with Chronic Spontaneous Urticaria
Author(s) -
Ebru Arık Yılmaz,
Betül Karaatmaca,
Cansın Saçkesen,
Ümit Murat Şahiner,
Özlem Cavkaytar,
Bülent Enis Şekerel,
Özge Soyer
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
international archives of allergy and immunology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.696
H-Index - 100
eISSN - 1423-0097
pISSN - 1018-2438
DOI - 10.1159/000450953
Subject(s) - medicine , chronic urticaria , blastocystis , abdominal pain , gastroenterology , immunology , parasitic infection , feces , biology , paleontology
Parasites have been proposed to be an underlying cause of chronic spontaneous urticaria (CSU) in childhood, but a clear causal relationship between them has not been established. This study aimed to investigate the prevalence of parasitic infection-related CSU (PIRCSU) in children and to determine the factors associated with PIRCSU.

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