Continuous avoidance measures with or without acaricide in dust mite- allergic asthmatic children

Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology

Volumn 78, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 506-512

  Bahir, Arieh ^a,b   Goldberg, Arnon ^a,b   Mekori, Yoseph A ^a,b   Confino Cohen, Ronit ^a,b   Morag, Haim ^c   Rosen, Yosef ^c   Monakir, Dani ^d   Rigler, Shmuel ^d   Cohen, Avner Herman ^e   Horev, Zeev ^e   Noviski, Natan ^b,f   Mandelberg, Avigdor ^b,f  

^a MEIR MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c Pediatric Health Care Center   (Israel)

^d Pediatric Day Care Unit   (Israel)

^e Pediatric Health Care Center   (Israel)

^f WOLFSON MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACARICIDE; PIPERONYL BUTOXIDE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALLERGIC ASTHMA; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLEANING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; HOUSE DUST ALLERGY; HUMAN; MULTICENTER STUDY; PEAK EXPIRATORY FLOW; PEST CONTROL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

EID: 0030974644     PISSN: 10811206     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1081-1206(10)63239-5     Document Type: Article

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