Detection of allergen-symptoms relationships
For detecting significant literature co-mentions between allergens and
pathological terms, we followed a procedure similar to that
described[20]. Being na the
number of articles mentioning a given allergen,ns number of articles mentioning a given clinical
sign, b those mentioning both together (the intersection between
the two sets of articles) and P the whole size of the PubMed
database (~36 million entries), we calculated the
fraction of papers mentioning the term of lowest frequency that mentions
both: