Insect bite hypersensitivity (IBH) is an allergic dermatitis of the horse caused by bites of
insects of the genus Culicoides and is currently the best characterized allergic disease of …

Background Allergic skin diseases are common in horses worldwide. The most common
causes are insect bites and environmental allergens. Objectives To review the current …

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Triatoma infestans is a hemiptera, vector of Chagas' disease that feeds exclusively on
vertebrate blood in all life stages. Hematophagous insects' salivary glands (SG) produce …

In horses, allergies have been characterized by clinical signs and/or intradermal (id)
allergen testing. Our aim was to find the first direct evidence that immunoglobulin E (IgE) …

We postulated that all horses exposed to the bites of Culcoides (midges) would have an
antibody response to the antigen secreted in Culcoides saliva, but that IgE antibody would …

Background Allergy to bites of blood‐sucking insects, including biting midges, can affect
both human and veterinary patients. Horses are often suffering from an IgE‐mediated …

Reasons for performing study: Insect bite hypersensitivity (IBH) is an IgE‐mediated allergic
dermatitis caused by bites of Culicoides and Simulium species, and improved means of …

The objective of this study was to compare and analyze three common diagnostic methods
for summer eczema (SE) in horses, an allergic dermatitis caused by bites of Culicoides spp …

Since the initial characterization of IgE by Ishizaka et al.(1966), IgE was described in several
mammalian species. In horses, a single gene encoding the IgE heavy chain constant region …