The asthma epidemic and our artificial habitats

BMC Pulmonary Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Maziak, Wasim ^a,b  

^a SYRIAN CENTER FOR TOBACCO STUDIES   (Syrian Arab Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR CONDITIONING; ALLERGY; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CAR; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; COMPUTER SYSTEM; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FOOD INDUSTRY; HEATING; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNITY; IMMUNOPATHOGENESIS; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOREGULATION; INDUSTRIALIZATION; INFECTION; LEISURE; LIFESTYLE; MEDICAL CARE; PERSONAL HYGIENE; TELEVISION; TH1 CELL; TH2 CELL; CHILD; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EVOLUTION; HOUSING; HYGIENE; INDUSTRY; INNATE IMMUNITY; MATERIALS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR;

ASTHMA; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HOUSING; HUMANS; HYGIENE; IMMUNITY, INNATE; INDUSTRY; MANUFACTURED MATERIALS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 26844435104     PISSN: 14712466     EISSN: 14712466     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2466-5-5     Document Type: Article

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