Authors: Papadopoulos, Nikolaos; Agache, Ioana; Bavbek, Sevim; Bilo, Beatrice; Braido, Fulvio; Cardona, Victoria; Custovic, Adnan; de Monchy, Jan; Demoly, Pascal; Eigenmann, Philippe; Gayraud, Jacques; Grattan, Clive; Heffler, Enrico; Hellings, Peter; Jutel, Marek; Knol, Edward; Lötvall, Jan; Muraro, Antonella; Poulsen, Lars; Roberts, Graham; Schmid-Grendelmeier, Peter; Skevaki, Chrysanthi; Triggiani, Massimo; van Ree, Ronald; Werfel, Thomas; Flood, Breda; Palkonen, Susanna; Savli, Roberta; Allegri, Pia; Annesi-Maesano, Isabella; Annunziato, Francesco; Antolin-Amerigo, Dario; Apfelbacher, Christian; Blanca, Miguel; Bogacka, Ewa; Bonadonna, Patrizia; Bonini, Matteo; Boyman, Onur; Brockow, Knut; Burney, Peter; Buters, Jeroen; Butiene, Indre; Calderon, Moises; Cardell, Lars; Caubet, Jean-Christoph; Celenk, Sevcan; Cichocka-Jarosz, Ewa; Cingi, Cemal; Couto, Mariana; de Jong, Nicolette; Del Giacco, Stefano; Douladiris, Nikolaos; Fassio, Filippo; Fauquert, Jean-Luc; Fernandez, Javier; Rivas, Montserrat; Ferrer, Marta; Flohr, Carsten; Gardner, James; Genuneit, Jon; Gevaert, Philippe; Groblewska, Anna; Hamelmann, Eckard; Hoffmann, Hans; Hoffmann-Sommergruber, Karin; Hovhannisyan, Lilit; Hox, Valérie; Jahnsen, Frode; Kalayci, Ömer; Kalpaklioglu, Ayse; Kleine-Tebbe, Jörg; Konstantinou, George; Kurowski, Marcin; Lau, Susanne; Lauener, Roger; Lauerma, Antti; Logan, Kirsty; Magnan, Antoine; Makowska, Joanna; Makrinioti, Heidi; Mangina, Paraskevi; Manole, Felicia; Mari, Adriano; Mazon, Angel; Mills, Clare; Mingomataj, Ervin; Niggemann, Bodo; Nilsson, Gunnar; Ollert, Markus; O'Mahony, Liam; O'Neil, Serena; Pala, Gianni; Papi, Alberto; Passalacqua, Gianni; Perkin, Michael; Pfaar, Oliver; Pitsios, Constantinos; Quirce, Santiago; Raap, Ulrike; Raulf-Heimsoth, Monika; Rhyner, Claudio; Robson-Ansley, Paula; Alves, Rodrigo; Roje, Zeljka; Rondon, Carmen; Rudzeviciene, Odilija; Ruëff, Franziska; Rukhadze, Maia; Rumi, Gabriele; Sackesen, Cansin; Santos, Alexandra; Santucci, Annalisa; Scharf, Christian; Schmidt-Weber, Carsten; Schnyder, Benno; Schwarze, Jürgen; Senna, Gianenrico; Sergejeva, Svetlana; Seys, Sven; Siracusa, Andrea; Skypala, Isabel; Sokolowska, Milena; Spertini, Francois; Spiewak, Radoslaw; Sprikkelman, Aline; Sturm, Gunter; Swoboda, Ines; Terreehorst, Ingrid; Toskala, Elina; Traidl-Hoffmann, Claudia; Venter, Carina; Vlieg-Boerstra, Berber; Whitacker, Paul; Worm, Margitta; Xepapadaki, Paraskevi; Akdis, Cezmi; European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Venue: Clinical and Translational Allergy

Type: Publication

Abstract: AbstractIn less than half a century, allergy, originally perceived as a rare disease, has become a major public health threat, today affecting the lives of more than 60 million people in Europe, and probably close to one billion worldwide, thereby heavily impacting the budgets of public health systems. More disturbingly, its prevalence and impact are on the rise, a development that has been associated with environmental and lifestyle changes accompanying the continuous process of urbanization and globalization. Therefore, there is an urgent nee... (read more)

DOI: 10.1186/2045-7022-2-21