Allergy Essentials, 2nd Edition

• Offers a practical approach to evaluation, differential diagnosis, and treatment of allergic disorders, focused specifically on what the non-specialist needs to know for everyday practice.
• Includes new content on allergen-specific immunotherapy as well as a new chapter on precision medicine.
• Covers the most recent allergy tests, including blood tests, and includes current discussions of biologicals as therapeutics.
• Provides focused, relevant information on basic immunology and physiology, epidemiology, and allergens.
• Begins each chapter with a handy summary of key concepts to help you quickly identify important information.
• Authored by the same internationally recognized experts that produce Middleton’s Allergy, the definitive text in the field.
• An ideal resource for primary care providers who are increasingly seeing and treating patients with allergic conditions as well as allergists who need a concise and current practice reference.
• Enhanced eBook version included with purchase. Your enhanced eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices.

Edited by Robyn E O’Hehir, MD, Director, Department of Allergy, Immunology, and Respiratory Medicine, Alfred Hospital, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia ; Stephen T Holgate, MD, DSc, FMedSci, Clinical Professor of Immunopharmacology Medical Faculty in Clinical and Experimental Sciences; Gurjit K. Khurana Hershey, MD, PhD, Director, Division of Asthma Research; Co-Director, Office of Pediatric Clinical Fellowships; Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH and Aziz Sheikh, MD, Professor of Primary Care Research and Development Co-Director of the Centre of Medical Informatics