Indoor environment of residential homes in Hong Kong - Relevance to asthma and allergic disease

Clinical and Experimental Allergy

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 585-590

  Leung, R ^a,b   Lam, C W K ^b   Chan, A ^a   Lee, M ^a   Chan, I H S ^b   Pang, S W ^c   Lai, C K W ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c Environmental Protection Department   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Allergen; Allergy; Asthma; Cat; Cockroach; Environment; Mite; Nitrogen dioxide

Indexed keywords

HOUSE DUST ALLERGEN; NITROGEN DIOXIDE;

AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CAT; COCKROACH; COOKING; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HOUSE DUST; HOUSE DUST ALLERGY; HUMAN; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; INFESTATION; MITE; MOULD; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR;

AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; ALLERGENS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; ASTHMA; BEDS; COCKROACHES; DATA COLLECTION; DUST; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EVALUATION STUDIES; FLOORS AND FLOORCOVERINGS; HOUSING; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY; INTERIOR DESIGN AND FURNISHINGS; MITES; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; PREVALENCE;

EID: 0031838937     PISSN: 09547894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2222.1998.00281.x     Document Type: Article

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