Hypoxemia: An early indication of pigeon breeders disease. Clinical and laboratory findings among pigeon breeders in the Salonica area

Journal of Investigational Allergology and Clinical Immunology

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 211-215

  Charitopoulos, K ^a   Gioulekas, D ^a   Sichletidis, Lazaros ^a   Chloros, D ^a   Vamvakopoulou, V ^a   Zarogoulidis, K ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Allergic alveolitis; Chronic cough; Hypoxemia; Pigeon breeders' disease; Precipitins

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; PRECIPITIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRD BREEDER LUNG; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONJUNCTIVITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; EXERCISE TEST; GREECE; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; REST; RHINITIS; SENSITIZATION; SPIROMETRY; SPUTUM;

ADULT; ALLERGENS; ANIMALS; ANOXEMIA; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; BIRD FANCIER'S LUNG; COLUMBIDAE; CONJUNCTIVITIS, ALLERGIC; COUGH; EXERCISE TEST; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; GREECE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RHINITIS, ALLERGIC, PERENNIAL; SPIROMETRY; SPUTUM; VITAL CAPACITY;

EID: 27544488871     PISSN: 10189068     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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