Multiple sclerosis and the hygiene hypothesis

Neurology

Volumn 67, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 2085-2086

  Fleming, John O ^a,b   Cook, Thomas D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b H6/564 CSC ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLERGIC DISEASE; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HEALTH SURVEY; HYGIENE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SANITATION;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; HYGIENE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; TRICHURIASIS; TRICHURIS;

EID: 33845695229     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000247663.40297.2d     Document Type: Article

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