High microbial turnover rate preventing atopy: A solution to inconsistencies impinging on the Hygiene hypothesis?

Clinical and Experimental Allergy

Volumn 30, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 1506-1510

  Matricardi, P M ^a   Bonini, S ^a  

^a DASRS   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARBOVIRUS; ATOPY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; HYGIENE; IMMUNOSTIMULATION; MEASLES; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; REVIEW; RURAL AREA; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; T LYMPHOCYTE;

BACTERIA; HUMANS; HYGIENE; HYPERSENSITIVITY, IMMEDIATE; IMMUNITY, MUCOSAL; MODELS, IMMUNOLOGICAL;

EID: 0033724382     PISSN: 09547894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2222.2000.00994.x     Document Type: Review

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