Acanthamoeba profilin elicits allergic airway inflammation in mice.

• Main Authors: So Myung Song (Author), Shin Ae Kang (Author), Hye Kyung Park (Author), Dong Hee Kim (Author), So Young Park (Author), Se Bok Jang (Author), Hak Sun Yu (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2018-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BACKGROUND:In previous studies, we suggested that Acanthamoeba is a new aero-allergen and that patients who showed positive results for the skin-prick test response to Acanthamoeba cross-reacted with several pollen allergens. Additionally, patients with common antibodies reacted to the 13-15 kDa Aca...