Sensitisation to airborne moulds and severity of asthma: Cross sectional study from European Community respiratory health survey

British Medical Journal

Volumn 325, Issue 7361, 2002, Pages 411-414

  Zureik, Mahmoud ^a   Neukirch, Catherine ^a   Leynaert, Bénédicte ^a   Liard, Renata ^a   Bousquet, Jean ^b   Neukirch, Françoise ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b HÔPITAL ARNAUD DE VILLENEUVE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN; CORTICOSTEROID;

ADULT; AIRBORNE PARTICLE; ALTERNARIA; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CLADOSPORIUM; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMATOPHAGOIDES PTERONYSSINUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EUROPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTICENTER STUDY; POLLEN; PRICK TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY AND SENSIBILITY;

ADULT; AIR MICROBIOLOGY; AIR POLLUTANTS; ALLERGENS; ALTERNARIA; ANTIGENS, FUNGAL; ASTHMA; CLADOSPORIUM; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; FUNGI; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; ODDS RATIO; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SKIN TESTS;

EID: 0037167308     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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