Association between sensitization to Aureobasidium pullulans (Pullularia sp) and severity of asthma

Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology

Volumn 98, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 153-156

  Niedoszytko, Marek ^a   Chełmińska, Marta ^a   Jassem, Ewa ^a   Czestochowska, Eugenia ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GDANSK   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ALTERNARIA; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS; ASTHMA; AUREOBASIDIUM PULLULANS; CLADOSPORIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMATOPHAGOIDES FARINAE; DERMATOPHAGOIDES PTERONYSSINUS; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPIDERMOPHYTON FLOCCOSUM; FEATHER; FEMALE; FUSARIUM; GRASS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPHOMYCETES; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOULD; MUCOR; PENICILLIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN SENSITIZATION; SKIN TEST; TREE; YEAST;

EID: 33846820330     PISSN: 10811206     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1081-1206(10)60688-6     Document Type: Article

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