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A Case Due to Hypersensitivity to Blue Cheese Penicillium

WALTER B. SHELLEY, MD

Arch Dermatol. 1964;90(1):54-58.

Abstract
Study of a patient with recurrent erythema annulare centrifugum of eight years' duration revealed it to be due to hypersensitivity to Penicillium mold of blue cheese. Oral test administration of blue cheese produced a rapid flare and extension of the lesions with a concomitant specific degranulation and decrease in the circulating basophil leukocytes. Complete avoidance of blue cheese has resulted in clinical clearing.

Author Affiliations
PHILADELPHIA

Department of Dermatology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.

Footnotes
This study was supported by a grant from the John A. Hartford Foundation.

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