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Article: Transplant Recipient Gets Nut Allergy
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- January 27, 2003
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Dateline: CHICAGO
A man who received a liver transplant got a life-threatening nut allergy
from the new organ, Australian doctors say.
The organ had come from a 15-year-old boy who died of an allergic
reaction to peanuts, the doctors reported in Monday's Archives of
Internal Medicine.
Dr. Tri Giang Phan, an immunology specialist at Sydney's Royal Prince