Silverfish protein in house dust in relation to mite and total arthropod level

Clinical and Experimental Allergy

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 1171-1176

  Witteman, A M ^a   Voorneman, R ^a   Van Den Oudenrijn, S ^a   Van Leeuwen, J ^a   Akkerdaas, J ^a   Van Der Zee, J S ^a   Aalberse, R C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b CENTRAL LABORATORY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Arthropod; Exposure; House dust; House dust mite; Insect; Silverfish; Tropomyosin

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; TROPOMYOSIN;

ARTICLE; DERMATOPHAGOIDES PTERONYSSINUS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HOUSE DUST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALLERGENS; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIGENS, DERMATOPHAGOIDES; ARTHROPODS; DUST; GLYCOPROTEINS; IMMUNOASSAY; MITES; TROPOMYOSIN;

EID: 0029839410     PISSN: 09547894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2222.1996.tb00504.x     Document Type: Article

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