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  1. The term ā€œintoleranceā€ is not mentioned in the World Allergy Organization (WAO) document on allergy nomenclature. ā€œIntoleranceā€ has been used to describe some non-immunological diseases. However, pediatric gas...

    Authors: Sten Dreborg
    Citation: World Allergy Organization Journal 2015 8:88
  2. Health care professionals and patients mix and mingle (hyper)sensitivity, allergy and intolerance. The consequences are discrepancies which result in confusion. The following is a very personal point of view, ...

    Authors: Y. Vandenplas
    Citation: World Allergy Organization Journal 2015 8:87
  3. One of the keys to high quality paediatric asthma management is the provision of age appropriate information regarding the disease and its management. In order to determine whether the generation of a minimum ...

    Authors: Mark L. Everard, Ulrich Wahn, Sofia Dorsano, Elham Hossny and Peter Le Souef
    Citation: World Allergy Organization Journal 2015 8:84
  4. Typical carcinoid syndrome is characterized by flushing, abdominal pain and diarrhea and occurs in <10 % of carcinoid tumor patients. Very rarely, initial signs include skin manifestations. Our purpose is to h...

    Authors: Ivan Cherrez Ojeda, Juan Carlos Calderon, Karin Plaza, Emanuel Vanegas, Annia Cherrez and JosƩ Cano
    Citation: World Allergy Organization Journal 2015 8:9083
  5. From a birth cohort of at-risk Asian infants, we prospectively investigated the role of early onset allergen sensitization and clinical phenotypes as risk factors for atopic disorders at the age of 5 years.

    Authors: Phaik Ling Quah, Evelyn Xiu Ling Loo, Gabriella Nadine Li Yuan Lee, I-Chun Kuo, Irvin Gerez, Genevieve Villablanca Llanora, Yiong Huak Chan, Marion Aw, Lynette Pei-Chi Shek and Bee Wah Lee
    Citation: World Allergy Organization Journal 2015 8:82
  6. Anaphylaxis is a severe, life threatening allergic reaction. In most fatal cases of food anaphylaxis, the fatality is not due merely to a simple, linear relationship between the allergen and exposure in a sens...

    Authors: Peter K Smith, Jonathan Oā€™B Hourihane and Phil Lieberman
    Citation: World Allergy Organization Journal 2015 8:81
  7. Precision medicine is a medical model aiming to deliver customised healthcare - with medical decisions, practices, and/or products tailored to the individual patient informed but not directed by guidelines. Al...

    Authors: GW Canonica, C. Bachert, P. Hellings, D. Ryan, E. Valovirta, M. Wickman, O. De Beaumont and J. Bousquet
    Citation: World Allergy Organization Journal 2015 8:79
  8. The World Allergy Organization (WAO) Guidelines for the assessment and management of anaphylaxis provide a unique global perspective on this increasingly common, potentially life-threatening disease. Recommend...

    Authors: F. Estelle R. Simons, Motohiro Ebisawa, Mario Sanchez-Borges, Bernard Y. Thong, Margitta Worm, Luciana Kase Tanno, Richard F. Lockey, Yehia M. El-Gamal, Simon GA Brown, Hae-Sim Park and Aziz Sheikh
    Citation: World Allergy Organization Journal 2015 8:80
  9. In recent years the role of vitamin D status in early life on the development of allergic disease has generated much interest. The aim of this study was to determine whether cord blood vitamin D concentrations...

    Authors: Debra Jane Palmer, Thomas R. Sullivan, Clark M. Skeaff, Lisa G. Smithers and Maria Makrides
    Citation: World Allergy Organization Journal 2015 8:77
  10. Allergen immunotherapy (AIT) is widely used in clinical practice for patients with moderate to severe allergic rhinitis due to inhalant allergens and may be delivered via subcutaneous (SCIT) and sublingual rou...

    Authors: Claus Bachert, Mark LarchĆ©, Sergio Bonini, Giorgio Walter Canonica, Thomas KĆ¼ndig, Desiree Larenas-Linnemann, Dennis Ledford, Hugo Neffen, Ruby Pawankar and Giovanni Passalacqua
    Citation: World Allergy Organization Journal 2015 8:78
  11. Inhaled asthma medications are the mainstay of treatment for chronic asthma. However, nonadherence rates for long-term inhaler therapy among adults are estimated to exceed 50 %. Nonadherence is associated with...

    Authors: David Price, Brooke Harrow, Mark Small, James Pike and Victoria Higgins
    Citation: World Allergy Organization Journal 2015 8:75
  12. The numbers of reptiles in homes has at least doubled in the last decade in Europe and the USA. Reptile purchases are increasingly triggered by the attempt to avoid potentially allergenic fur pets like dogs an...

    Authors: Erika Jensen-Jarolim, Isabella Pali-Schƶll, Sebastian A.F. Jensen, Bruno Robibaro and Tamar Kinaciyan
    Citation: World Allergy Organization Journal 2015 8:72
  13. Environment may have a key role in the development of the immune system in childhood and environmental exposures associated with rural residence may explain the low prevalence of allergic and autoimmune diseas...

    Authors: Philip J. Cooper, Leila D. Amorim, Camila A. Figueiredo, Renata Esquivel, Fernanda Tupiza, Silvia Erazo, Yisela Oviedo, Maritza Vaca, Martha E. Chico and Mauricio L. Barreto
    Citation: World Allergy Organization Journal 2015 8:71
  14. The purpose of this brief communication is to highlight emerging evidence to existing guidelines regarding potential benefits of supporting early, rather than delayed, peanut introduction during the period of ...

    Authors: David M. Fleischer, Scott Sicherer, Matthew Greenhawt, Dianne Campbell, Edmond S. Chan, Antonella Muraro, Susanne Halken, Yitzhak Katz, Motohiro Ebisawa, Lawrence Eichenfield and Hugh Sampson
    Citation: World Allergy Organization Journal 2015 8:76
  15. The prevalence of allergic airway diseases such as asthma and rhinitis has increased dramatically to epidemic proportions worldwide. Besides air pollution from industry derived emissions and motor vehicles, th...

    Authors: Gennaro Dā€™Amato, Stephen T. Holgate, Ruby Pawankar, Dennis K. Ledford, Lorenzo Cecchi, Mona Al-Ahmad, Fatma Al-Enezi, Saleh Al-Muhsen, Ignacio Ansotegui, Carlos E. Baena-Cagnani, David J. Baker, Hasan Bayram, Karl Christian Bergmann, Louis-Philippe Boulet, Jeroen T. M. Buters, Maria Dā€™Amato…
    Citation: World Allergy Organization Journal 2015 8:73
  16. Food allergy is a major public health problem affecting nearly 10 % of children in most industrialized countries. Unfortunately, there are no effective therapies for food allergy, relegating patients to simply...

    Authors: Dale T. Umetsu, Rima Rachid and Lynda C. Schneider
    Citation: World Allergy Organization Journal 2015 8:70
  17. For a long time, the human lower airways were considered a sterile environment where the presence of microorganisms, typically revealed by culturing, was interpreted as an abnormal health state. More recently,...

    Authors: Velma T. E. Aho, Pedro A. B. Pereira, Tari Haahtela, Ruby Pawankar, Petri Auvinen and Kaisa Koskinen
    Citation: World Allergy Organization Journal 2015 8:74
  18. Despite advances in management, the mortality and morbidity due to asthma are increasing globally. Identification of specific correlates in the local context is useful in disease management. The objective of t...

    Authors: Manjula Nishanthi Danansuriya, Lalini C Rajapaksa and Anura Weerasinghe
    Citation: World Allergy Organization Journal 2015 8:68
  19. Identifying allergic rhinitis requires allergy testing, but the first-line referral for rhinitis are usually primary care physicians (PCP), who are not familiar with such tests. The availability of easy and si...

    Authors: Maurizio Galimberti, Giovanni Passalacqua, Cristoforo Incorvaia, Vincenzo Castella, Maria Teresa Costantino, Beniamino Cucchi, Sebastiano Gangemi, Gilda Nardi, Paolo Raviolo, Paola Rottoli, Nicola Scichilone, Nico Sciolla, Germano Bettoncelli, Massimo Landi, Erminia Ridolo, Serena Buttafava…
    Citation: World Allergy Organization Journal 2015 8:67
  20. To enhance the dissemination of the ARIA document (Allergic rhinitis (AR) and its impact on asthma) in Mexico, a Working Group composed of 35 specialists of 8 professional medical societies developed a transcu...

    Authors: DƩsirƩe ES Larenas Linnemann, Miguel Alejandro Medina Ɓvalos and JosƩ Lozano SƔenz
    Citation: World Allergy Organization Journal 2015 8:64
  21. Owing to their side effects, administration of steroids for bronchial asthma attacks should be minimized. We investigated whether budesonide inhalation suspension (BIS) could replace intravenous steroid admini...

    Authors: Noriyuki Yanagida, Morimitsu Tomikawa, Akinori Shukuya, Masamichi Iguchi and Motohiro Ebisawa
    Citation: World Allergy Organization Journal 2015 8:65
  22. Allergic rhinitis (AR) is a relevant risk factor for the development of asthma in children. We recruited a cohort of 104 children with AR and re-evaluated them after 5 years. We considered the ARIA classificat...

    Authors: Giuseppe Di Cara, Alessia Carelli, Arianna Latini, Elisa Panfili, Ilaria Bizzarri, Giorgio Ciprandi, Serena Buttafava, Franco Frati and Alberto Verrotti
    Citation: World Allergy Organization Journal 2015 8:61
  23. Urticarial Vasculitis (UV) is in most of the cases idiopathic; however it has been associated with several conditions and drugs. Over the counter (OTC) diet pills are widely available, even on-line, but they a...

    Authors: IvĆ”n ChĆ©rrez Ojeda, Enrique Loayza, Leonardo Greiding, Juan Carlos CalderĆ³n, Annia Cherrez and Farid Adum
    Citation: World Allergy Organization Journal 2015 8:59
  24. Authors: Mara Morelo Rocha Felix, SĆ“nia Hoana Silva, Cintia Bordalo, Marinauria Leal Pinto, Monica De Britto Pereira Bandeira De Mello, Jaqueline Ribeiro Toscano De Brito, Karla Do Carmo FerrĆ£o, Jaqueline Coser Vianna, Raquel Grinapel, Andreia Albuquerque GarcĆŖs, Monica Soares De Souza and Aniela Bonorino Xexeo Castelo Branco
    Citation: World Allergy Organization Journal 2015 8(Suppl 1):743

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 8 Supplement 1

  25. Authors: ValĆ©ria Soraya De Farias Sales, Aleida Maria Da Silva Lima, Karina Mendes Melchuna, Luanda BĆ”rbara Ferreira CanĆ”rio Souza, Mariana AraĆŗjo Costa, Guilherme MaranhĆ£o Chaves and Sarah Dantas Viana Medeiros
    Citation: World Allergy Organization Journal 2015 8(Suppl 1):739

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 8 Supplement 1

  26. Authors: Guilherme GuimarĆ£es, Ana Paula Kazue Beppu, Julia Warchavchik Melardi, VerĆ“nica Reche Rodrigues Gaudino, Marina Colella Dos Santos, Maria Da ConceiĆ§Ć£o Santos De Menezes and Wilma Carvalho Neves Forte
    Citation: World Allergy Organization Journal 2015 8(Suppl 1):571

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 8 Supplement 1

  27. Authors: Eduardo Costafsilva, Tatiana Menezes Monteiro, Anna Carolina Nogueira Arraes, Gabriela Andrade C Dias, Denise Lacerda Pedrazzi, Guilherme Loureiro Werneck and Maria Ines PerellĆ³
    Citation: World Allergy Organization Journal 2015 8(Suppl 1):517

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 8 Supplement 1

  28. Leukotriene receptor antagonist (LTRA) therapy reduces asthma exacerbations in children older than 2 years. However, whether early intervention using LTRA in atopic smaller children aged 1 to 2 years who had e...

    Authors: Motohiro Ebisawa, Akihiko Terada, Kazuki Sato, Fumitake Kurosaka, Naomi Kondo, Chizuko Sugizaki, Akihiro Morikawa, Sankei Nishima and Mitsuyoshi Urashima
    Citation: World Allergy Organization Journal 2015 8:62
  29. Epidemiologic studies suggest that the prevalence of allergic rhinitis (AR) is rising worldwide. Several reports, in fact, indicate increasing trends in the prevalence of AR especially in developing countries,...

    Authors: Carlos E Baena-Cagnani, Giorgio W Canonica, Mohamed Zaky Helal, RenĆ© Maximiliano GĆ³mez, Enrico Compalati, Mario E Zernotti, Mario Sanchez-Borges, Fabio F Morato Castro, Margarita Murrieta Aguttes, Aida LĆ³pez-Garcia and Faheem A Tadros
    Citation: World Allergy Organization Journal 2015 8:57
  30. Gold Standard allergen-specific immunotherapy is associated with low efficacy because it requires either many subcutaneous injections of allergen or even more numerous sublingual allergen administrations to ac...

    Authors: Gabriela Senti and Thomas M KĆ¼ndig
    Citation: World Allergy Organization Journal 2015 8:47
  31. Aluminium is a hot topic in the current debate. Exposure occurs due to environmental, dietary and intentional exposure to aluminium, such as in vaccines where it was introduced in 1926. In spite of the fact th...

    Authors: Erika Jensen-Jarolim
    Citation: World Allergy Organization Journal 2015 8:60
  32. The editors of World Allergy Organization Journal would like to thank all of our reviewers who have contributed to the journal in Volume 7 (2014).

    Authors: Alessandro Fiocchi and Erika Jensen-Jarolim
    Citation: World Allergy Organization Journal 2015 8:56
  33. Cutaneous involvement characterized by urticarial lesions with or without angioedema and itch is commonly observed in routine medical practice. The clinical approach may still remain complex in real life, beca...

    Authors: Giuliana Ferrante, Valeria Scavone, Maria Concetta Muscia, Emilia Adrignola, Giovanni Corsello, Giovanni Passalacqua and Stefania La Grutta
    Citation: World Allergy Organization Journal 2015 8:52
  34. Prevalence of allergic diseases in infants, whose parents and siblings do not have allergy, is approximately 10% and reaches 20ā€“30% in those with an allergic first-degree relative. Intestinal microbiota may mo...

    Authors: Alessandro Fiocchi, Ruby Pawankar, Carlos Cuello-Garcia, Kangmo Ahn, Suleiman Al-Hammadi, Arnav Agarwal, Kirsten Beyer, Wesley Burks, Giorgio W Canonica, Motohiro Ebisawa, Shreyas Gandhi, Rose Kamenwa, Bee Wah Lee, Haiqi Li, Susan Prescott, John J Riva…
    Citation: World Allergy Organization Journal 2015 8:55
  35. Upper airway diseases including allergic rhinitis, chronic rhinosinusitis with or without polyps, and cystic fibrosis are characterized by substantially different inflammatory profiles. Traditionally, studies ...

    Authors: Thanit Chalermwatanachai, Leydi Carolina VelƔsquez and Claus Bachert
    Citation: World Allergy Organization Journal 2015 8:48
  36. Pollen allergens are delivered to epithelial surfaces of the upper respiratory tract in conjunction with multiple endogenous adjuvants. We previously demonstrated pollen-mediated modulation of cytokine and che...

    Authors: Stefanie Gilles, Isabelle Beck, Stefan Lange, Johannes Ring, Heidrun Behrendt and Claudia Traidl-Hoffmann
    Citation: World Allergy Organization Journal 2015 8:54