Cat and dog allergens - Can intervention studies solve their inscrutable riddle?

Clinical and Experimental Allergy

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1167-1170

  Almqvist, C ^a   Van Hage Hamsten, M ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN;

ALLERGY; ASTHMA; CAT; COHORT ANALYSIS; DOG; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; EDITORIAL; EXPOSURE; HEREDITY; HOUSE DUST; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIZATION;

ALLERGENS; ANIMALS; ASTHMA; CATS; DOGS; DUST; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; PROGNOSIS; PYROGLYPHIDAE;

EID: 0042736748     PISSN: 09547894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2222.2003.t01-1-01759.x     Document Type: Editorial

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