Occupational asthma caused by champignon flies

Allergy: European Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 521-525

  Cimarra, M ^a   Martinez Cocera C ^a   Chamorro, M ^a   Cabrera, M ^a   Robledo, T ^a   Lombardero, M ^b   Alonso, A ^a   Castellano, A ^a   Bartolome, J M ^a  

^a HOSPITAL CLÍNICO SAN CARLOS   (Spain)

^b Alergia e Inmunologia Abello   (Spain)

Author keywords

Diptera; Fly hypersensitivity; IgE immunoblotting; Mushroom worker; Occupational asthma; Phoridae

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN E;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FLY; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; MUSHROOM; OCCUPATIONAL ASTHMA; PEAK EXPIRATORY FLOW; PRICK TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROVOCATION TEST; RHINOCONJUNCTIVITIS;

AGARICALES; ANIMALS; ASTHMA; CONJUNCTIVITIS, ALLERGIC; DIPTERA; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; INSECT PROTEINS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PEAK EXPIRATORY FLOW RATE; RHINITIS; SKIN TESTS;

EID: 0033054289     PISSN: 01054538     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1398-9995.1999.00015.x     Document Type: Article

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