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Interpreting skin prick tests in the evaluation of food allergy in children
Author(s) -
Eigenmann Philippe A.,
Sampson Hugh A.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
pediatric allergy and immunology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.269
H-Index - 89
eISSN - 1399-3038
pISSN - 0905-6157
DOI - 10.1111/j.1399-3038.1998.tb00371.x
Subject(s) - medicine , food allergy , food hypersensitivity , allergy , dermatology , skin test , immunology , pathology , tuberculosis
Skin prick tests (SPTs) are utilized routinely in the evaluation of food allergy and several authors have discussed their utility. Efforts to standardize SPT reagents and procedures have been made, but the accuracies of different recording techniques have not been clearly defined. The aim of this study was to compare different SPT recording methods with the outcome of oral food challenge and determine whether they offer any advantage over the criteria proposed by Bock and May (1).