The role of fungi in the airway of chronic rhinosinusitis patients

Current Opinion in Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 17-24

  Ragab, Ahmed ^a   Clement, Peter ^b  

^a Menoufia University Hospital   (Egypt)

^b FREE UNIVERSITY OF BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Airway; Asthma; Chronic rhinosinusitis; Fungi

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA; MUCOLYTIC AGENT;

AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ALLERGIC FUNGAL SINUSITIS; ALTERNARIA; ANTIGEN PRESENTING CELL; ANTIGENICITY; ASPERGILLUS; ASPERGILLUS FLAVUS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; AUDITORY CANAL; BRONCHOPULMONARY ASPERGILLOMA; BRONCHUS REACTIVITY; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CHRONIC INFLAMMATION; CHRONIC RHINOSINUSITIS; CLADOSPORIUM; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DENDRITIC CELL; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EFFECTOR CELL; ENDOSCOPY; EOSINOPHIL; EOSINOPHILIA; FUNGAL DETECTION; FUNGAL EXAMINATION; FUNGUS CULTURE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; MACROPHAGE; MONOCYTE; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; NOSE MUCUS; PARANASAL SINUS; PENICILLIUM; PETRIELLIDIUM BOYDII; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RHINOSINUSITIS; RHIZOPUS; SINUSITIS; SMALL AIRWAY DISEASE; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION;

CHRONIC DISEASE; FUNGI; HUMANS; MYCOSES; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; RHINITIS; SINUSITIS;

EID: 33846213878     PISSN: 15284050     EISSN: 14736322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACI.0b013e328013c84c     Document Type: Review

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