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RDF description of Insect sting allergy - http://repository.healthpartners.com/individual/document-rn18741
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Hypersensitivity, Immediate/*etiology/*prevention & control
10.1016/j.mcna.2005.08.006
Insect Bites and Stings/*complications
document-rn18741
Medical Clinics of North America
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Insect sting allergy
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Venoms/adverse effects/immunology
*Hymenoptera
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<p>Insect sting allergy has served as an excellent model for the allergic process over the past century. In particular, during the last 30 years, a new form of diagnostic testing and treatment with vo m has been one of the great suc-cess stories in the entire field of allergy. VIT reduces the risk of recurrent life-threatening reactions from about 60% to less than 2%. Progress and further questions continue with a search for a definitive diagnostic test that more accurately predicts which patients are at risk for future reactions, and defines which patients can stop VIT and which ones need to continue treatment.<p>
Desensitization, Immunologic