A single year of immunotherapy for ragweed hay fever. Immunologic and clinical studies.

Abstract In a placebo-controlled trial of a single preseasonal course of desensitization (immunotherapy) for ragweed hay fever, treatment with either crude ragweed pollen extract or purified pollen...

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