Identification of allergens in coconut milk and oil with patients sensitized to coconut milk in Sri Lanka.

Janitha IddagodaPeshala GunasekaraShiroma HandunnettiChandima JeewandaraChandima KarunatilakeGathsaurie Neelika MalavigeRajiva de SilvaDhanushka Dasanayake

Published in: Clinical and molecular allergy : CMA (2022)

Allergens of BCM and unrefined coconut oil (WPCO and DPCO) were determined for the first time. Novel allergens of 87 and 110 kDa and the 55 kDa allergen have the highest potential to be used in Component Resolved Diagnostics. Further, these findings demonstrate that, patients who have an allergy to coconut milk could also react to boiled coconut milk and unrefined coconut oil.

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