Evaluation of the relationship between cockroach sensitivity and house-dust-mite sensitivity in Turkish asthmatic patients

Respiratory Medicine

Volumn 99, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1032-1037

  Üzel, Azize ^a   Çapan, Nermin ^a   Canbakan, Sema ^a   Yurdakul, Ahmet Selim ^b   Dursun, Berna ^a  

^a Research Hospital   (Turkey)

^b GAZI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Asthma; Cockroach; Mite

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN E;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ALLERGIC ASTHMA; ALLERGIC RHINITIS; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; COCKROACH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EOSINOPHIL; FEMALE; FOOD ALLERGY; HOUSE DUST ALLERGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; INHALATION TEST; INSECT ALLERGY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRICK TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SENSITIZATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SHRIMP; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE;

ADULT; ALLERGENS; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, DERMATOPHAGOIDES; ASTHMA; BRONCHIAL PROVOCATION TESTS; COCKROACHES; DERMATOPHAGOIDES PTERONYSSINUS; EOSINOPHILS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; METHACHOLINE CHLORIDE; MIDDLE AGED; POLLEN; RURAL HEALTH; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SKIN TESTS; TURKEY; URBAN HEALTH;

EID: 20444386560     PISSN: 09546111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rmed.2004.12.013     Document Type: Article

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