Gaseous air pollution and atopy

Clinical and Experimental Allergy

Volumn 29, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1474-1480

  Charpin, D ^a,d   Pascal, L ^b   Birnbaum, J ^a   Armengaud, A ^c   Sambuc, R ^b   Lanteaume, A ^a   Vervloet, D ^a  

^a HÔPITAL SAINTE MARGUERITE   (France)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^c DRASS   (France)

^d HÔPITAL NORD   (France)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Asthma; Atopy; Epidemiology; Occurrence

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN; HOUSE DUST ALLERGEN; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; OZONE; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; ATOPY; DUST; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRICK TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY, IMMEDIATE; MALE; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; OZONE; PREVALENCE; SKIN TESTS; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

EID: 0032749787     PISSN: 09547894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2222.1999.00685.x     Document Type: Article

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