Predictors of airbone endotoxin in the home

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 109, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 859-864

  Park, Ju Hyeong ^a   Spiegelman, Donna L ^a   Gold, Diane R ^a,b   Burge, Harriet A ^a   Milton, Donald K ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Airbone endotoxin; Dust endotoxin; Predictive model; Seasonal variability

Indexed keywords

CONCRETE; ENDOTOXIN; WATER; ALLERGEN;

ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BED; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONSTANTS AND COEFFICIENTS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DOG; DUST; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FAMILY; HOME; HUMAN; HUMIDIFIER; KITCHEN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOISTURE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES; AIR POLLUTANT; ANIMAL; CAT; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HOUSING; HUMIDITY; HYPERSENSITIVITY; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; INFANT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MOUSE; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEASON; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; ALLERGENS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; ASTHMA; CATS; DOGS; DUST; ENDOTOXINS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HOUSING; HUMANS; HUMIDITY; HYPERSENSITIVITY; INFANT; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MASSACHUSETTS; MICE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEASONS; TOBACCO SMOKE POLLUTION;

EID: 0034741119     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.01109859     Document Type: Article

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