BACKGROUND This study evaluated the diagnostic performance of the atopy patch test (APT) compared with skin prick testing (SPT) and in vitro IgE measurement in a large group of patients with atopic dermatitis (AD) with or without respiratory symptoms (RS). METHODS The study included 521 patients (292 males, 229 females; age, 0.5-18 years; median age, 6 years) with AD and RS with different cli...

Test-based automatic program repair has attracted a lot of attention in recent years. However, the test suites in practice are often too weak to guarantee correctness and existing approaches often generate a large number of incorrect patches. To reduce the number of incorrect patches generated, we propose a novel approach that heuristically determines the correctness of the generated patches. T...

Citation Saliba, Bruna Gama, Nathalia Pessoa Simis, Marisa Rosimeire Ribeiro, Laila Sabino Garro, Nathália Coelho Portilho, Jorge Kalil, Pedro Giavina-Bianchi, Antonio Abílio Motta, Marcelo Vivolo Aun, and Violeta Regnier Galvão. 2015. “Erythema multiforme induced by clindamycin diagnosed by patch test.” The World Allergy Organization Journal 8 (Suppl 1): A169. doi:10.1186/1939-4551-8-S1-A169. ...

BACKGROUND Chairs and sofas imported from China to Europe were shown to contain dimethyl fumarate (DMF), a sensitizing, volatile chemical. Many of the sensitized patients also had positive patch test reactions to acrylates. OBJECTIVES To analyse the occurrence and strength of DMF sensitization and the appearance of concomitant reactions. METHODS Patch testing with DMF in concentrations of 0...

Non-steroidal, anti-inflammatory drugs, followed by antibiotics, are the main causes of fixed drug eruption. They provoke one or several round erythematous or bullous lesions that recur in the same place after taking the causative medication. A positive patch test on residual, lesional skin can replace satisfactorily oral reintroduction. We describe the case of a 74-year-old woman with numerous...

During the 1998-2003 period, patch testing was carried out in 65 atopic dermatitis patients, 20 (31%) male and 45 (69%) female, mean age 34.7 (range 6-77) years. Twenty-six (40%) patients, 7 (27%) male and 19 (73%) female, showed positive reaction to one or more allergens. Allergic reactions were more common in women. The most common allergens were nickel (33.3%), cobalt (11.1%), fragrance mix ...

ABSTRACT- A real-time, site-specific, machine-vision based, inter-row patch herbicide application system was developed and evaluated. The image resolution was 640 × 480 pixels covering a total area of 350 mm x 240 mm of a field composed of four quadrants of 350 mm x 60 mm each. The image frames were processed by LabView® and MatLab®. The developed algorithm, based on weed coverage ratio and seg...