Sensitivity to Five Types of House Dust Mite in a Group of Allergic Egyptian Children.

The published data on house dust mite (HDM) sensitization from Egypt are scanty. We sought to investigate the sensitization to five different types of HDM among a group of allergic children in a trial to outline the most frequent sensitizing strains in the Cairo Province. We consecutively enrolled 100 asthmatic patients, aged 1-7 years, of whom 22 had concomitant skin allergy.