Prevalence of wheeze and asthma and relation to atopy in urban and rural Ethiopia

Lancet

Volumn 350, Issue 9071, 1997, Pages 85-90

  Yemaneberhan, Haile ^a,c   Bekele, Zegaye ^a,b   Venn, Andrea ^b   Lewis, Sarah ^b   Parry, Eldryd ^a   Britton, John ^a  

^a JIMMA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c NOTTINGHAM CITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSECTICIDE; MALATHION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; ATOPY; BED; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMATOPHAGOIDES PTERONYSSINUS; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ETHIOPIA; HOUSING; HUMAN; INFANT; LIFESTYLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RURAL POPULATION; SELF REPORT; SYMPTOM; URBAN POPULATION; WHEEZING;

EID: 0030769394     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(97)01151-3     Document Type: Article

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