Children with acute asthma: IgE antibody reactivities to fungi, house dust mites, cockroaches, and other indoor allergens

Pediatric Asthma, Allergy and Immunology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 59-67

  Reese, Gerald ^a   Colberg, Wendell N ^a   El Dahr, Jane M ^a   McCants, Marjorie L ^a   Lehrer, Samuel B ^a  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E;

ADOLESCENT; ALTERNARIA; ANTIGEN ANTIBODY REACTION; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS; ASTHMA; BASIDIOMYCETES; CAT; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLADOSPORIUM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COCKROACH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMATOPHAGOIDES PTERONYSSINUS; DEUTEROMYCETES; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; FUNGUS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFANT; MALE; PENICILLIUM; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSILOCYBE; RADIOALLERGOSORBENT TEST; SYMPTOM;

EID: 0034026433     PISSN: 08831874     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/pai.2000.14.59     Document Type: Article

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