The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
Volume 120, Issue 6 , Pages 1413-1417 , December 2007

The natural history of egg allergy

Received 28 June 2007 ,Revised 12 September 2007 ,Accepted 17 September 2007.

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 Supported by the Food Allergy Initiative, Julie and Neil Reinhard, and the Eudowood Foundation.

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

PII: S0091-6749(07)01834-9

doi: 10.1016/j.jaci.2007.09.040

The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
Volume 120, Issue 6 , Pages 1413-1417 , December 2007

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