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Table 1 Allergy diagnostic assessments: skin-prick tests, skin (prick-by-prick) tests with native allergens, and allergen-specific IgE tests

From: A case of allergy to Silybum marianum (milk thistle) and Eragrostis tef (teff)

Skin-prick tests

Skin (prick-by-prick) tests with native allergens

Allergen-specific IgE

Allergen

W

F

Allergen

W

F

Allergen

Result

Chicken egg

4

5

Teff flour

22

60

wasp (i03)

1.6 kU/L (allergen class 2)

Milk thistle

16

35

Hazelnut

3

4

Oat flour

5

25

Speckled alder pollen (t02)

0.72 kU/L (allergen class 2)

Rye flour

3

10

Buckwheat flour

5

15

Oak pollen (t07)

0.43 kU/L (allergen class 1)

Wheat flour

3

5

Columbus grass

17

35

Rye pollen (g12)

0.55 kU/L (allergen class 1)

Anise

3

10

Rice flour

6

25

Common buckwheat (f11)

0.39 kU/L (allergen class 1)

Banana

3

15

Barley flour

6

10

Peanut (f13)

0.43 kU/L (allergen class 1)

Hazel

5

10

Oat flour

3

5

Rice (f09)

4.0 kU/L (allergen class 3)

Alder

5

10

Corn flour

5

20

Wheat flour (f04)

0.38 kU/L (allergen class 1)

Birch

3

0

Rice flour

16

35

Sesame (f10)

0.52 kU/L (allergen class 1)

Grasses

6

20

Positive control

3

5

  

Rye pollen

3

20

Negative control

0

0

  

Tyrophagus (mites)

3

0

 

Lepidoglyphus (mites)

3

10

Positive control

3

5

Negative control

0

0

  1. W wheal, F flare