scholarly journals Allergy to Red Meat: A Diagnosis Made by the Patient and Confirmed by an Assay for IgE Antibodies Specific for Alpha-1,3-Galactose

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mamadou Kaloga ◽  
Sarah Kourouma ◽  
Yao Isidore Kouassi ◽  
Elidje Joseph Ecra ◽  
Ildevert Patrice Gbery ◽  
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We report the first case of allergy to red meat observed in Ivory Coast. A 49-year-old male presented with pruritus. The diagnosis of allergy to red meat was confirmed by an assay for IgE antibodies specific for alpha-1,3 galactose. Interestingly, the disease was considered a spell to the patient who was suspected of being a sorcerer by the community.

Author(s):  
Hannah Sande

This paper examines two case studies of morpheme-specific reduplication that copy from a syntactic domain larger than a root but smaller than a word, providing an analysis in Cophonologies by Phase (CBP) of both morpheme-specific phonotactic requirements in different reduplication processes and of the amount of structure copied in reduplication. The first case study comes from Guébie (Kru, Ivory Coast), where reduplication marks both nominalization and reciprocals (among others). In both morphosyntactic environments, reduplication copies the verb plus valency-changing affixes, but the reduplicants are subject to different sets of phonotactic restrictions. The second case study comes from Kinande (Bantu, Democratic Republic of Congo) where there is reduplication of nouns as well as verbs. Nominal and verbal reduplication both involve a two-syllable reduplicant that copies from the root plus some--but not all--affixes, and both are subject to a morpheme integrity constraint. However, the two reduplication processes differ in whether they are prefixing or suffixing, whether they copy from right-to-left or left-to-right, and in which repair to the morpheme integrity constraint is preferred.While other frameworks such as traditional Cophonology Theory, Stratal OT, or Indexed Constraints could also account for the morpheme-specific phonological behavior of reduplicants, CBP has the added benefit of straightforwardly accounting for the amount of structure that serves as the base of reduplication in each case. This paper contributes to the growing literature on morphophonological interactions that can be accounted for within CBP.


2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liping Wen ◽  
Junxiong Zhou ◽  
Jia Yin ◽  
Jin-lu Sun ◽  
Yi Sun ◽  
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2009 ◽  
Vol 123 (2) ◽  
pp. 426-433.e2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott P. Commins ◽  
Shama M. Satinover ◽  
Jacob Hosen ◽  
Jonathan Mozena ◽  
Larry Borish ◽  
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2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (12) ◽  
pp. e236923
Author(s):  
Maria Beatriz Garcia ◽  
Andres F Gomez-Samper ◽  
Elizabeth Garcia ◽  
Augusto Peñaranda

Food allergies to red meat, specifically to galactose-alpha-1,3-galactose (alpha-gal), a mammalian oligosaccharide, are considered to be very rare, especially in Asia and Latin America. Most of the cases reported are characterised by symptoms of delayed urticaria or anaphylaxis after the consumption of red meat. Sensitisation to red meat has been linked to the use of cetuximab or tick bites, especially from the Amblyomma americanum and Ixodes spp species. Here, we documented a case study from a Colombian male patient with symptoms of delayed urticaria and anaphylaxis with a history of tick bites in Colombia. The patient presented with IgE antibodies specific to alpha-gal, which is the most common epitope linked to red meat allergy induced by tick bites.


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