Evidence for the Transmissibility of Atopy: Hypothesis

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Volumn 124, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1968-1974

  Hussain, Iftikhar ^a,b   Smith, Jeanne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Asthma; Atopy; Epidemiology; Etiology; Viral infections

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN; BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; FAS ANTIGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; SUPERANTIGEN;

APOPTOSIS; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; ATOPY; CELL CLONING; CELL PROTECTION; CHILD CARE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECZEMA; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; EXPOSURE; HELPER CELL; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 1; HUMAN; HUMAN T CELL LEUKEMIA VIRUS 1; HYPOTHESIS; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INTRINSIC ASTHMA; LYMPHOCYTE; MORALITY; MOUSE STRAIN; NOSE POLYP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SKIN TEST; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; TH2 CELL;

EID: 0242636930     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.124.5.1968     Document Type: Article

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