%0 Journal Article
%T Welcome to Clinical and Translational Allergy
%A Jan L£¿tvall
%A Victoria Cardona
%J Clinical and Translational Allergy
%D 2011
%I BioMed Central
%R 10.1186/2045-7022-1-1
%X The aim of CTA is to provide a platform for the dissemination of original allergy-immunology research, exciting reviews as well as EAACI-developed position papers. Today, at the launch of the journal, one position paper and three exciting reviews are published, and several recently submitted original research papers are under consideration. Firstly, a very long-term effort in developing an EAACI position paper on diagnostic tools in rhinology is published in CTA [1]. This publication has taken several years to develop, and is the most comprehensive publication on the topic to date. Three review articles are discussing different interesting aspects and theories in allergy. One, by Woo and Bahna [2], discusses the different types of reactions that can be induced by shellfish ingestion, and the clinical misinterpretations that can evolve. Another review article, by Chaudhary and Marr [3], considers the impact that Aspergillus Fumigatus can have on respiratory disease. Lastly, an overview article by Mattila and colleagues [4], examines the role of respiratory and conjunctival epithelium in airway allergic disease. These fundamentally different topics not only contribute to the literature, but also illustrate the width of topics that CTA will publish. Beyond clinical experimental research and epidemiology, CTA will certainly also accept any studies using animal models of any allergic process, and immunological research related to allergic disease.The field of allergy concerns the most common group of diseases globally. Allergic diseases have grown rapidly in prevalence in the industrialized world, and are now rapidly growing in developing countries. It is considered that diseases of the immune system, such as allergic diseases, are best explained through a clear grasp of normal immune mechanisms and the ways by which these processes become dysfunctional. This is one of the explanations of selecting the name of the journal, including the key word "translational", since it
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