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Sensitivity to Quorn mycoprotein (Fusarium venenatum) in a mould allergic patient
  1. S J Katona,
  2. E R Kaminski
  1. Department of Immunology, Level 7, Derriford Hospital, Plymouth, Devon PL6 8DH, UK; katonas@doctors.org.uk

    https://doi.org/10.1136/jcp.55.11.876-a

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      A 27 year old female civil servant presented with five episodes of peri-orbital, tongue, and neck angio-oedema with wheeze and shortness of breath. One of these episodes occurred a few minutes after eating a Quorn burger. She had a 20 year history of perennial sneezing, rhinorrhea, and itchy throat, occurring throughout the day and night, but no cough or wheezing. While on holiday in Mauritius she was asymptomatic. Twelve years previously, she had received six months of weekly injections of alternaria, cladosporium, …

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