Basophil activation test identifies children at risk of severe cow’s milk allergy. Learn how this biomarker could guide safer management.

The BAT provides the physician with an additional instrument to diagnose drug allergy and to tailor possible safe alternatives. However, additional studies are needed before the BAT can enter ...

The new method could soon allow doctors to do away with the potentially dangerous food challenge to diagnose allergies.

Across the world, food allergies are on the rise. One of the most important cells in studying this ailment are basophils, which activate inflammation and other responses to allergens such as rashes, ...

Indolent systemic mastocytosis (ISM) is a type of mastocytosis in which fewer clonal mast cells accumulate, thereby slowing the disease course and offering a better prognosis than other, more ...

ASA: Aspirin salicylic acid; DPT: Drug provocation test; H: History; IDT: Intradermal skin test. The basophil activation test (BAT) is not a primary diagnostic tool; it is a test complementary to the ...