The natural course of sensitisation and atopic disease in infancy and childhood

Pediatric Allergy and Immunology, Supplement

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 16-20

  Wahn, Ulrich ^a   Bergmann, Renate ^a   Kulig, Michael ^a   Forster, Johannes ^a   Bauer, Carl Peter ^a  

^a Padiatrie Schw Pneumologie I   (Germany)

Author keywords

Allergen exposure; Atopy; Sensitisation

Indexed keywords

HOUSE DUST ALLERGEN;

ATOPY; CHILDHOOD; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISEASE COURSE; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; INFANCY; LIFESTYLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEWBORN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIZATION; TEMPERATURE;

AGE FACTORS; ALLERGENS; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, DERMATOPHAGOIDES; CATS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; GERMANY; GLYCOPROTEINS; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY, IMMEDIATE; INFANT; MITES; PREVALENCE;

EID: 0031444414     PISSN: 09065784     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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