Hygiene hypothesis and protection against asthma in infants: Spending time in the countryside encountering natural allergens may boost maternal immunity

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 914-915

  Zavos, Christos ^a   Vini, Dimitra ^a   Kountouras, Jannis ^a   Zavos, Nikolaos ^a   Trivara, Evanthia ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN; TOBACCO SMOKE;

AGRICULTURE; ALLERGY; ASTHMA; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FAMILY HISTORY; FARM ANIMAL; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HUMAN; HYGIENE; HYPOTHESIS; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNITY; IMMUNOLOGICAL MEMORY; INFECTION; LETTER; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; RURAL AREA; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIBLING; SYMPTOM;

ASTHMA; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYGIENE; IMMUNITY, MATERNALLY-ACQUIRED; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MODELS, IMMUNOLOGICAL; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 33846375714     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2006.08.034     Document Type: Letter

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