Paeds Vivas · allergy-and-immunology
Oral allergy syndrome and pollen-food syndrome — branching viva
Branching viva on the cross-reactive mechanism, phenotype classification, fresh-food and component diagnostics, and the low-risk versus systemic-risk management fork.
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Prompt
You are the paediatric registrar at the allergy interface. The examiner moves from a definition, to the mechanism, to diagnostics, and finishes on the management fork and the lipid-transfer-protein phenotype.
Stem
The examiner moves from a definition, to the cross-reactive mechanism, to diagnostics, and finishes on the management fork and the lipid-transfer-protein phenotype. [1] [2]
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