Component-resolved diagnosis of kiwifruit allergy with purified natural and recombinant kiwifruit allergens Merima Bublin, PhD, Marina Pfister, MD, Christian Radauer, PhD, Christina Oberhuber, PhD, Sean Bulley, PhD, Åsa Marknell DeWitt, PhD, Jonas Lidholm, PhD, Gerald Reese, PhD, Stefan Vieths, PhD, Heimo Breiteneder, PhD, Karin Hoffmann-Sommergruber, PhD, Barbara K. Ballmer-Weber, MD Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology Volume 125, Issue 3, Pages 687-694.e1 (March 2010) DOI: 10.1016/j.jaci.2009.10.017 Copyright © 2010 American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology Terms and Conditions
Fig 1 IgE reactivity profiles to kiwifruit extracts and individual allergens in kiwifruit-monosensitized subjects (A1), subjects with kiwifruit and pollen allergy (A2), subjects with kiwifruit, pollen, and latex allergy (A3), and controls with a birch pollen allergy (B), with a pollen and latex allergy (C), and nonatopics (D). Specific IgE concentrations are expressed as CAP classes as described in the Methods section. Extracta, Commercial extract; Extractb, self-produced extract. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology 2010 125, 687-694.e1DOI: (10.1016/j.jaci.2009.10.017) Copyright © 2010 American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology Terms and Conditions
Fig 2 Sensitization profiles to kiwifruit allergen components in kiwifruit-monosensitized subjects (A1), subjects with kiwifruit and pollen allergy (A2), and subjects with kiwifruit, pollen, and latex allergy (A3). Dotted lines indicate the 0.35 kUA/L cutoff level. Median values are indicated. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology 2010 125, 687-694.e1DOI: (10.1016/j.jaci.2009.10.017) Copyright © 2010 American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology Terms and Conditions
Specific serum IgE levels to the individual allergens of patients responding with more severe or systemic symptoms (see Table I, symptoms by case history) to ingestion of kiwifruit were compared with those with a pure OAS. Dotted lines indicate the 0.35 kUA/L cutoff level. Median values are indicated. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology 2010 125, 687-694.e1DOI: (10.1016/j.jaci.2009.10.017) Copyright © 2010 American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology Terms and Conditions