Ekaterina Potapova, Salvatore Tripodi, Valentina Panetta, Stephanie Dramburg, Roberto Bernardini, Carlo Caffarelli, Antonella Casani, Rosa Cervone, Loredana Chini, Pasquale Comberiati, Giovanna De Castro, Michele Miraglia Del Giudice, Iride Dello Iacono, Andrea Di Rienzo Businco, Marcella Gallucci, Arianna Giannetti, Viviana Moschese, Ifigenia Sfika, Elena Varin, Riccardo Asero, Annamaria Bianchi, Mauro Calvani, Tullio Frediani, Francesco Macrì, Nunzia Maiello, Francesco Paravati, Umberto Pelosi, Diego Peroni, Giuseppe Pingitore, Mariangela Tosca, Anna Maria Zicari, Giampaolo Ricci, Gerald Reese, Linus Grabenhenrich, Katja Icke, Armin Grübl, Christoph Müller, Fred Zepp, Antje Schuster, Ulrich Wahn, Susanne Lau, Thomas Keil, Paolo Maria Matricardi
BACKGROUND: IgE antibodies to cross-reactive carbohydrate determinants (CCD) are usually clinically irrelevant but they can be a cause of false positive outcomes of allergen-specific IgE tests in vitro. Their prevalence and levels have been so far cross-sectionally examined among adult allergic patients and much less is known about their origins and relevance in childhood. METHODS: We examined CCD with a cross-sectional approach in 1263 Italian pollen allergic children (Panallergen in Paediatrics, PAN-PED), as well as with a longitudinal approach in 612 German children (Multicenter Allergy Study, MAS), whose cutaneous and IgE sensitization profile to a broad panel of allergen extracts and molecules was already known...
January 17, 2024: Clinical and Experimental Allergy