Measurement of airborne mite allergen exposure in individual subjects

Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Volumn 97, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1040-1044

  Sakaguchi, Masahiro ^a   Inouye, Sakae ^b   Sasaki, Reiko ^a   Hashimoto, Michiko ^c   Kobayashi, Chizuru ^a   Yasueda, Hiroshi ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^b NIPPON VETERINARY AND LIFE SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c SAGAMIHARA NATIONAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Airborne; allergen; bedding; Der 1; mite

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN;

AIR SAMPLING; AIRBORNE PARTICLE; ALLERGIC REACTION; ARTICLE; BED; DERMATOPHAGOIDES PTERONYSSINUS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HOUSE DUST; IMMUNOASSAY; MITE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY;

EID: 0030004727     PISSN: 00916749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0091-6749(96)70255-5     Document Type: Article

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