Laboratory Methods in Clinical Allergy

Clinical Laboratory Methods

Clinical and laboratory-based methods in the diagnosis of natural rubber latex allergy.

The accurate diagnosis of hypersensitivity to natural rubber latex is the initial step in the effective management of individuals with latex allergy and in ensuring the quality of epidemiologic studies. The diagnostic algorithm used in the evaluation of an individual with suspected latex allergy begins with a comprehensive clinical history during which risk factors (atopy, food allergies, hand ...

Clinical Protests Food Allergy in Children

The best recognized intestinal manifestation of food allergy is food allergic (food-sensitive) enteropathy. The feature of enteropathy may include lymphocyte and plasma cell infiltration, epithelial abnormality, or crypt hyperplastic villous atrophy, and impairing absorption, enterophaty continues while the food remains in the diet, remitting on an exclusion diet, and usually recurring on food ...

Synopsis of Clinical Laboratory Methods

Clinical Diagnosis by Laboratory Methods

There is an introductory chapter on the use of the microscope and then successive chapters on examination of the sputum, the urine, the blood, gastric and duodenal contents, the faeces, animal parasites, pus and other body fluids, miscellaneous examinations including divers subjects such as the pregnancy tests and diagnosis of rabies, sero-diagnosis, bacteriological methods, and vaccines and sk...