Environnement and respiratory allergy prevalence among swiss school children facts from the scarpol survey;Environnement et prévalence de l'allergie respiratoire chez les écoliers suisses. Enseignements de l'étude scarpol

Medecine et Hygiene

Volumn 55, Issue 2151, 1997, Pages 349-352

  Voronier, H S ^a   Braun Fahrlander C H ^b   Gassner, M ^b   Grize, L ^b   Sennhauser, F H ^b   Neu, U ^b   Vuille, J C ^b   Wuthrich B ^b  

^a Institut Central des Hopitaux Valaisans   (Switzerland)

^b NONE

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