[The pork-cat syndrome or crossed allergy between pork meat and cat epithelia (1)]

Allerg Immunol (Paris). 1994 May;26(5):166-8, 171-2.
[Article in French]

Abstract

This work is a study of the frequency of the association between sensitivity to pork meat and cat epithelia. Comparison with a reference population that was not sensitized to pork meat, shows that this association is highly significant. This suggests therefore the possibility of a crossed allergenicity. If there is a real crossed allergenicity between pork meat and cat epithelia, we suggest that this crossed allergenicity is without doubt much greater and concerns more the meats and epithelia of mammals.

Publication types

  • Comparative Study
  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Cats / immunology*
  • Cross Reactions
  • Dogs / immunology
  • Epithelium / immunology
  • Female
  • Food Hypersensitivity / immunology*
  • Horses / immunology
  • Humans
  • Hypersensitivity, Immediate / immunology*
  • Immunoglobulin E / immunology
  • Male
  • Meat / adverse effects*
  • Milk Hypersensitivity / immunology
  • Rabbits / immunology
  • Radioallergosorbent Test
  • Rodentia / immunology
  • Ruminants / immunology
  • Species Specificity
  • Swine / immunology*
  • Syndrome

Substances

  • Immunoglobulin E