Handling of allergen immunotherapy in the COVID-19 pandemic: An ARIA-EAACI statement

Affiliations

• ¹ Center for Rhinology and Allergology, Wiesbaden, Germany.
• ² Department of Clinical Immunology, Wrocław Medical University, ALL-MED Medical Research Institute, Wrocław, Poland.
• ³ Swiss Institute of Allergy and Asthma Research (SIAF), University of Zurich, Davos, Switzerland.
• ⁴ Department of Dermatology and Allergy, Berlin Institute of Health, Comprehensive Allergy Center, Berlin, Germany.
• ⁵ University Hospital Montpellier, Montpellier, France.
• ⁶ MACVIA-France, Montpellier, France.
• ⁷ Upper Airways Research Laboratory, ENT Department, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium.
• ⁸ Transylvania University Brasov, Brasov, Romania.
• ⁹ Department of Allergy and Immunology, Hospital Quirónsalud Bizkaia, Erandio, Spain.
• ¹⁰ Woolcock Institute of Medical Research, University of Sydney, Woolcock Emphysema Centre, Sydney Local Health District, Glebe, NSW, Australia.
• ¹¹ Personalized Medicine, Asthma and Allergy - Humanitas Clinical and Research Center IRCCS, Rozzano, MI, Italy.
• ¹² Department of Biomedical Sciences, Humanitas University, Pieve Emanuele, Italy.
• ¹³ School of Medicine, University CEU San Pablo, Madrid, Spain.
• ¹⁴ ProAR - Nucleo de Excelencia em Asma, Federal University of Bahia, Bahia, Brazil.
• ¹⁵ WHO GARD Planning Group, Bahia, Brazil.
• ¹⁶ Medical Consulting Czarlewski, Levallois, and MASK-air, Montpellier, France.
• ¹⁷ Department of Medical Sciences and Public Health and Unit of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, University Hospital "Duilio Casula", University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy.
• ¹⁸ Department of Respiratory Medicine, Wuhan Children's Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong, China.
• ¹⁹ University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.
• ²⁰ Center for Research in Health Technologies and Information Systems- CINTESIS, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal.
• ²¹ Allergy Unit, Instituto CUF Porto e Hospital CUF Porto, Porto, Portugal.
• ²² Health Information and Decision Sciences Department - CIDES, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal.
• ²³ Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal.
• ²⁴ Skin and Allergy Hospital, Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland.
• ²⁵ Department of Pathophysiology and Allergy Research, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
• ²⁶ Servicio de Alergia e Immunologia, Clinica Santa Isabel, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
• ²⁷ GARD Chairman, Geneva, Switzerland.
• ²⁸ Departments of Immunology and Dermatology/Allergology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
• ²⁹ Division of Internal Medicine, Asthma and Allergy, Barlicki University Hospital, Medical University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland.
• ³⁰ Center of Excellence in Asthma and Allergy, Médica Sur Clinical Foundation and Hospital, México City, Mexico.
• ³¹ Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet and Sachs' Children's Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.
• ³² Rhinology Unit & Smell Clinic, ENT Department, Hospital Clínic, Barcelona, Spain.
• ³³ Clinical & Experimental Respiratory Immunoallergy, IDIBAPS, CIBERES, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
• ³⁴ Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
• ³⁵ National Hospital Organization, Tokyo National Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.
• ³⁶ Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Chiba University Hospital, Chiba, Japan.
• ³⁷ Departments of Medicine and Microbiology, APC Microbiome Ireland, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.
• ³⁸ Division of Infection, Immunity & Respiratory Medicine, Royal Manchester Children's Hospital,, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
• ³⁹ Department of Pediatrics, Nippon Medical School, Tokyo, Japan.
• ⁴⁰ Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Section of Rhinology and Allergy, University Hospital Marburg, Phillipps-Universität Marburg, Marburg, Germany.
• ⁴¹ Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Section of Rhinology and Allergy, University Hospital Marburg, Phillipps-Universität Marburg, Germany.
• ⁴² Department of Prevention of Environmental Hazards and Allergology, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland.
• ⁴³ Centre for Inflammation Research, Child Life and Health, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
• ⁴⁴ Unit of Geriatric Immunoallergology, University of Bari Medical School, Bari, Italy.
• ⁴⁵ Vilnius University Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Clinical Medicine & Institute of Health Sciences, Vilnius, Lithuania.
• ⁴⁶ European Academy of Paediatrics (EAP/UEMS-SP), Brussels, Belgium.
• ⁴⁷ Department of Pulmonology, Celal Bayar University, Manisa, Turkey.
• ⁴⁸ Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
• ⁴⁹ Department of Dermatology and Allergy, Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Berlin Institute of Health, Comprehensive Allergy-Centre, Berlin, Germany.
• ⁵⁰ Immunomodulation and Tolerance Group, Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Inflammation, Repair and Development, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, UK.
• ⁵¹ Asthma UK Centre in Allergic Mechanisms of Asthma, London, UK.
• ⁵² Department of Allergology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China.