The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
Volume 120, Issue 5 , Pages 1172-1177 , November 2007

The natural history of IgE-mediated cow's milk allergy

Received 21 May 2007 ,Revised 8 August 2007 ,Accepted 8 August 2007.

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 Supported by National Institutes of Health Training Grant #5T32 AI07007 and the Eudowood Foundation.

 Disclosure of potential conflict of interest: R. A. Wood has consulting arrangements with Dey Pharmaceutical, has received grant support from Merck and Genentech, and is on the speakers' bureau for Dey, Merck, and Glaxo. The rest of the authors have declared that they have no conflict of interest.

PII: S0091-6749(07)01589-8

doi: 10.1016/j.jaci.2007.08.023

The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
Volume 120, Issue 5 , Pages 1172-1177 , November 2007

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