In search of the golden ratio for cannabis allergy: Utility of specific allergen-to-total IgE ratios

Allergy. 2021 Nov;76(11):3522-3525. doi: 10.1111/all.15028. Epub 2021 Aug 21.

Ine I Decuyper^{1

2}, Hans-Peter Rihs³, Christel H Mertens¹, Athina Ludovica Van Gasse^{1

2}, Jessy Elst¹, Margaretha A Faber¹, Margo M Hagendorens^{1

2}, Vito Sabato^{1

4}, Didier G Ebo^{1

4}

¹ Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Department of Immunology, Allergology, Rheumatology and the Infla-Med Centre of Excellence, and Immunology, Allergology, Rheumatology, Antwerp University Hospital, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium.
² Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Department of Paediatrics and the Infla-Med Centre of Excellence, and Paediatrics, Antwerp University Hospital, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium.
³ Institute for Prevention and Occupational Medicine of the German Social Accident Insurance (IPA), Institute of the Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany.
⁴ Department of Immunology and Allergology, AZ Jan Palfijn Gent, Ghent, Belgium.

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Keywords: allergy diagnosis; cannabis allergy; sIgE; sIgE-to-total IgE ratio; total IgE.

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