Journal article
Immunotherapy with peptides
Abstract
Specific allergen immunotherapy is clinically effective and disease modifying. It has a duration of effect that exceeds the treatment period and prevents both the progression of allergic rhinitis to asthma and the acquisition of new allergic sensitizations. However, immunotherapy is associated with a high frequency of adverse events related to the allergenicity of vaccines. Allergenicity is conferred by the presence of intact B-cell epitopes …
Authors
Moldaver D; Larché M
Journal
Allergy, Vol. 66, No. 6, pp. 784–791
Publisher
Wiley
Publication Date
June 2011
DOI
10.1111/j.1398-9995.2011.02610.x
ISSN
0001-5148