Feather bedding and allergic disease in children: A cover story?

Clinical and Experimental Allergy

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 1119-1123

  Siebers, R ^a   Fitzharris, P ^b   Crane, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b GUY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLERGIC ASTHMA; BED; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDITORIAL; FEATHER; HAND WASHING; HUMAN; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRICK TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKIN SENSITIVITY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; SYNTHETIC FIBER; WHEEZING;

ALLERGENS; ANIMALS; ASTHMA; BEDDING AND LINENS; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DUST; FEATHERS; HUMANS; MITE INFESTATIONS; MITES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TICK CONTROL;

EID: 0036040441     PISSN: 09547894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2745.2002.01475.x     Document Type: Editorial

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