Conflict of interest
There is no conflict of interest.
Acknowledgements
We would like to thank Australian Poultry Cooperative Research
Centre (CRC) and Deakin University’s Molecular and Medical
Research (MMR) Strategic Research Centre (SRC) for providing this
study with the required research funding, Commonwealth Scientific
and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) for supplying
animaltissues and eggs required for the study, and Royal Children’s
Hospital Melbourne for supplying egg allergic patients sera that
was crucial for the immunological analysis. Author P. D. was supported
by Deakin University Post Graduate Award and a Poultry
CRC Top-Up PhD Scholarship.