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Allergen Sensitization Patterns Of Allergic Dogs: Ige-Microarray Analysis, Yun-Hsia Hsiao, Charles Chen, Ton Willemse

The Thai Journal of Veterinary Medicine

It was the aim of this study to determine sensitization rates to environmental allergens in 50 dogs with allergic dermatitis. Protein microarray of the dogs’ sera was used to identify allergen-specific IgE against 25 most common allergens. Increased IgE levels were most frequently observed for house dust mites (D. pteronyssinus 42.0%, D. farinae 38.0%) and storage mites (22-50%). In particular, the dogs with non-food-induced allergic dermatitis showed higher sensitization rates to mites compared to the dogs with food-induced allergic dermatitis, or a combination thereof. Reactions to insects were, with the exception of one dog sensitized to cockroach, entirely negative, and …