Mother and two siblings with cockroach asthma

Japanese Journal of Allergology

Volumn 53, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1163-1167

  Oishi, Taku ^a,b   Morisawa, Yutaka ^b   Yasueda, Hiroshi ^c   Akiyama, Kazuo ^c   Wakiguchi, Hiroshi ^b  

^a Department of Pediatrics   (Japan)

^b KOCHI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^c SAGAMIHARA NATIONAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bronchial asthma; Cockroach allergy; Familial case; Psychogenic asthma

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN E;

ADULT; ALLERGIC ASTHMA; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COCKROACH; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; RADIOALLERGOSORBENT TEST; SCHOOL CHILD; SIBLING;

ALLERGENS; ANIMALS; ASTHMA; CHILD; COCKROACHES; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; MALE; SIBLINGS;

EID: 10944252893     PISSN: 00214884     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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