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Multifactorial Diseases with Immunological Involvement
Urticaria is a disease with transient itching wheals/hives and/or angioedema. Urticaria is divided into acute urticaria (AU) or chronic urticaria (CU, duration more than 6 weeks) [1]. Urticaria may be the skin...
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Skin Diseases Caused by Factors from the Environment
Members of the order Diptera, the family Culicidae, mosquitoes are vectors for the transmission of many diseases worldwide. There are over 3000 different species of mosquitoes, which grouped into more than 40 ...
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Anti-MPO Antibody (Id) and Autoantibody to Purified Anti-MPO F(Ab)2 (Anti-Id)
Anti-F(ab)2 autoantibodies may have an immunoregulatory effect on anti-MPO antibodies and there is the possibility that common idiotype(s) may be shared in ANCA positive vasculitides.