Levels of household mold associated with respiratory symptoms in the first year of life in a cohort at risk for asthma

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 110, Issue 12, 2002, Pages

  Gent, Janneane F ^a   Ren, Ping ^b   Belanger, Kathleen ^a   Triche, Elizabeth ^a   Bracken, Michael B ^a   Holford, Theodore R ^a   Leaderer, Brian P ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Asthma; Fungi; Indoor air; Infants; Mold; Penicillium; Wheezing

Indexed keywords

AIR SAMPLING; AIRBORNE PARTICLE; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CLADOSPORIUM; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FUNGAL DETECTION; FUNGUS; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; GENUS; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTHER; MOULD; PENICILLIUM; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESPIRATORY TRACT ALLERGY; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIOECONOMICS; WHEEZING;

CLADOSPORIUM; FUNGI; PENICILLIUM;

EID: 0036915368     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.021100781     Document Type: Article

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