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Article: Needles not the future of immunotherapy.(Pulmonary Medicine)
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- Family Practice News
- Article date:
- April 15, 2005
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San Antonio -- Adults with dust-mite allergy respond better to sublingual immunotherapy compared with standard allergy medications, according to Italian researchers.
"The clinical efficacy of sublingual immunotherapy has been previously established in pollen, but not dust-mite allergy," said lead author Carlo Lombardi, M.D., who presented his research at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology.
While the effect of sublingual immunotherapy is relatively easy to assess in pollen allergy, its effect on year-round dust-mite allergy has been more difficult to assess, added Giovanni Passalacqua, M.D., a coauthor of the ...