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Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2003;157:490.

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What we found to be of significance in this article were the findings that some patients treated with duct tape experienced resolution of other untreated warts following elimination of the treated wart.¹ The authors hypothesized that the resolution of untreated warts could be secondary to the stimulation of the host's immune response. The significance of the development of a host's immune response to effectuate wart regression is well documented in the literature.

Johnson and colleagues² produced similar resolution of treated and untreated distant warts after intralesional injections of mumps or Candida skin test antigens into warts. It was hypothesized by these authors that induction of a localized delayed-type hypersensitivity reaction within the injected wart would cause clearance of both treated and untreated distant verrucae.

Could duct tape treatment be a new form of less painful immunotherapy that would create a similar delayed hypersensitivity reaction, resulting in the clearance of treated . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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