In Clinical Study, Peanut Therapy Shows Promise In Treating Peanut Allergy

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The multicenter study was supported by the NIH's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and conducted by the Consortium of Food Allergy Research (CoFAR) at clinical sites in Baltimore; Chapel Hill, N.C.; Denver; Little Rock, Ark.; and New York City. CoFAR investigators David Fleischer, M.D., associate professor of pediatrics in the Division of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology at National Jewish Health in Denver, and A. Wesley Burks, M.D., chair of the Department of Pediatrics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, led the trial.

ARTICLE:
DM Fleischer et al. Sublingual immunotherapy for peanut allergy: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled multicenter trial. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology DOI: 10.1016/j.jaci.2012.11.011 (2013).

Marshall Plaut, M.D., chief, Food Allergy, Atopic Dermatitis, and Allergic Mechanisms Section, NIAID's Division of Allergy, Immunology, and Transplantation, is available to discuss this study.

RESOURCE INFORMATION:
This work was funded by NIAID, NIH, under grant numbers U19AI066738 and U01AI066560, and by the National Center for Research Resources and the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, NIH, under grant numbers UL1RR025780, UL1TR000067, UL1TR000039, UL1RR024128, and UL1RR025005. The ClinicalTrials.gov identifier for the study A Randomized, Double-Blind Placebo-Controlled Peanut Sublingual Immunotherapy Trial is NCT00580606.

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