Environmental exposure to endotoxin and its relation to asthma in school-age children

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 347, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 869-877

  Braun Fahrländer, Charlotte ^a   Riedler, Josef ^b   Herz, Udo ^c   Eder, Waltraud ^b   Waser, Marco ^a   Grize, Leticia ^a   Maisch, Soyoun ^d   Carr, David ^d   Gerlach, Florian ^d   Bufe, Albrecht ^e   Lauener, Roger P ^f   Schierl, Rudolf ^g   Renz, Harald ^c   Nowak, Dennis ^g   Von Mutius, Erika ^d  

^a SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b Children's Hospital Salzburg   (Austria)

^c PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^d LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; ENDOTOXIN; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 12; STAPHYLOCOCCUS ENTEROTOXIN B; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; AUSTRIA; BLOOD SAMPLING; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DOWN REGULATION; DUST EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GERMANY; HAY FEVER; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; LEUKOCYTE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RURAL AREA; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSITIZATION; SWITZERLAND;

ADOLESCENT; AGRICULTURE; ALLERGENS; ASTHMA; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CYTOKINES; DUST; ENDOTOXINS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY, IMMEDIATE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; LEUKOCYTES; MALE; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0037136585     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa020057     Document Type: Article

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