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100 years of ‘Allergy’: can von Pirquet's word be rescued?
Author(s) -
Kay A. B.
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
clinical and experimental allergy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.462
H-Index - 154
eISSN - 1365-2222
pISSN - 0954-7894
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2222.2006.02491.x
Subject(s) - allergy , foundation (evidence) , immunology , word (group theory) , term (time) , medicine , philosophy , linguistics , history , physics , archaeology , quantum mechanics
Summary It is 100 years since Clemens von Pirquet wrote his classic paper introducing the term ‘allergy’. Although the word is no longer used in the way he intended, his concept of ‘changed reactivity’ laid the foundation for the modern science of immunology.