THE INDIGENOUS AFRICAN ALLERGEN RESEARCH LABORATORY

摘要

The first truly indigenous grass pollen allergen, however, only identified in 1993, was kikuyu grass, for which pollen grains were painstakingly collected by hand by Dr Ann Cadman in Johannesburg and studied in the Cape Town laboratory using Western blots and serum from patients with seasonal allergies.This report was followed by the identification of buffalo grass (Stenotaphrum secundatum) as the second important indigenous aeroallergen.3 These studies were supported and made possible by research grants from the Allergy Society of South Africa (ALLSA) and the Medical Research Council (MRC).