Oral immunotherapy for treatment of egg allergy in children.

Wesley Burks, A; M Jones, Stacie; A Wood, Robert; M Fleischer, David; H Sicherer, Scott; W Lindblad, Robert; Stablein, Donald; K Henning, Alice; P Vickery, Brian; H Liu, Andrew; M Scurlock, Amy; G Shreffler, Wayne; Plaut, Marshall; A Sampson, Hugh; of Food Allergy Research (CoFAR), Consortium

doi:10.1056/NEJMoa1200435

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Oral immunotherapy for treatment of egg allergy in children.

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Authors:

A Wesley Burks

Stacie M Jones

Robert A Wood

Abstract

BACKGROUND: For egg allergy, dietary avoidance is the only currently approved treatment. We evaluated oral immunotherapy using egg-white powder for the treatment of children with egg allergy. METHODS: In this double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled study, 55 children, 5 to 11 years of age, with...

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