HOUSE DUST MITE AND HOUSE DUST ALLERGY

  • 1 January 1976
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 37  (1) , 12-17
Abstract
Skin testing and the radioallergosorbent test (RAST) with extracts of house dust and mite (Dermatophagoides farinae) were performed on 100 patients. Correlation between positive prick tests with the 2 antigens was low, many more reactions being obtained with the house dust antigen in patients clinically positive to house dust. For both antigens the degree of reactivity was higher with the prick test than with RAST. In this geographic area [Toronto, Canada], house dust extract is more suitable than mite extract for skin testing and, by inference, for hyposensitization therapy of house dust-sensitive patients.

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