Parasites, atopy, and the hygiene hypothesis: Resolution of a paradox?

Lancet

Volumn 356, Issue 9243, 2000, Pages 1699-1701

  Holt, Patrick G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN; BACTERIUM LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; CD14 ANTIGEN; CYTOKINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E ANTIBODY; INTERLEUKIN 10;

ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ATOPY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; GABON; HELMINTHIASIS; HUMAN; HYGIENE; IMMUNOLOGICAL MEMORY; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIZATION; TH1 CELL; TH2 CELL;

EID: 0034684443     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(00)03198-6     Document Type: Note

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