* Correspondence: [email protected] Schulich School of Medicine, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada Full list of author information is available at the end of the article Figure 1 Transparent grey color represents the Weather Network pollen counts. Local counts are in color. The width of the bar represents the season, while the height represents quantity of the individual pollens. Note the ...

79 Association between perinuclear antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies and infection: a retrospective study Shun-Ban Tai, Chen-Hung Chen, Chun-Chi Lu, Ning-Chi Wang, Tony Szu-Hsien Lee, Deh-Ming Chang Division of Rheumatology/Immunology/Allergy, Department of Internal Medicine, Zuoying Armed Forces General Hospital, Taiwan Division of Rheumatology/Immunology/Allergy, Department of Internal Me...

* Coughing at night 39/65 (60%) 21/25 (84%) Trouble breathing during gym 37/65 (57%) 14/25 (56%) Can’t run 34/65 (52%) 7/25 (28%) * Worried about dying 29/65 (45%) 4/25 (16%) Coughing with laugh 22/65 (32%) 4/25 (16%) Using puffers in public 22/65 (34%) 5/25 (52%) Can’t have the pet I want 22/65 (34%) 11/25 (44%) Missing activities when sick 22/65 (34%) 8/25 (32%) Filuk et al. Allergy, Asthma &...

It is a great honor and responsibility for me to take over the duty of the Editor-in-Chief of Asia Pacific Allergy after the founding Editor-in-Chief, professor Sang-Il Lee, and the second Editor-in-Chief, professor Connie H. Katelaris. Asia Pacific Allergy, the official journal of Asia Pacific Association of Asthma, Allergy, and Clinical Immunology (APAAACI), has been very successful since its...

Asthma is the leading chronic disease among children in most industrialized countries. However, the evidence base on specific aspects of pediatric asthma, including therapeutic strategies, is limited and no recent international guidelines have focused exclusively on pediatric asthma. As a result, the European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology and the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma...

From Laboratory for Immunogenomics and Laboratory for Immunological Memory, RIKEN Research Center for Allergy and Immunology, Yokohama; and Laboratory of Genome Technology, Department of Human Gene Research, Kazusa DNA Research Institute, Chiba, Japan *Correspondence to: Hiroshi Kitamura, D.V.M., Ph.D. Laboratory for Immunogenomics RIKEN Research Center for Allergy and Immunology 1-7-22 Suehiro...

A collection of Practice Guidelines published in AFP is available at http:// www.aafp.org/afp/ practguide. In westernized countries, 1% to 3% of children have a peanut allergy, with almost 100,000 new cases each year in the United States and United Kingdom. This consensus communication focuses on new data that support introducing peanuts early in infants, and it aims to assist with decisions ab...

Allergy immunotherapy (AIT) is an effective treatment for allergic asthma and rhinitis, as well as venom-induced anaphylaxis. In addition to reducing symptoms, AIT can change the course of allergic disease and induce allergen-specific immune tolerance. In current clinical practice immunotherapy is delivered either subcutaneously or sublingually; some allergens, such as grass pollen, can be deli...

Knowledge of patterns of pollen cross-reactivity is crucial for diagnostics and especially for formulation of immunotherapy vaccines in times of diminishing availability of pollen extract constituents. As phylogenetic relationships have become better clarified, it becomes apparent that cross-reactivity does reflect taxonomy in the very great majority of cases. Contradictory observations of unex...