作者
Enrico Heffler, Francesca Puggioni, Silvia Peveri, Marcello Montagni, Giorgio Walter Canonica, Giovanni Melioli
发表日期
2018/1/1
期刊
World Allergy Organization Journal
卷号
11
页码范围
7
出版商
Elsevier
简介
Background Precision medicine (PM) is changing the scope of allergy diagnosis and treatment. An in vitro IgE assay, a prototype PM method, was developed in the sixties and has garnered increasing interest because of the introduction of recombinant components in the test. More recently, microarrays of allergen components have significantly improved the ability to describe the IgE profile. Aim of this study was to evaluate the characteristics of the newly developed Allergy Explorer (ALEX), a macroarray containing both extracted "whole" allergens and molecular components. This method allows the acquisition of an IgE profile comprising 282 reagents (157 allergen extracts and 125 components), resulting in the widest screening of potential allergens available.
Methods Sera from 43 patients with allergies were assayed with ALEX and then with ImmunoCAP ISAC. The results of the two tests were compared, and the …
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