Asthma in Africa

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 0203-0205

  Wjst, Matthias ^a   Boakye, Daniel ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b University of Ghana   (Ghana)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ESTROGEN; PARACETAMOL; VITAMIN D;

AFRICA; ALLERGIC DISEASE; ASTHMA; CLINICAL FEATURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HEREDITY; HUMAN; INDUSTRIALIZATION; MALNUTRITION; MEDLINE; MORTALITY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PREVALENCE; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; ARTICLE; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; CHILD; ENVIRONMENT; SANITATION; WATER SUPPLY;

AFRICA; ASTHMA; CHILD; DERMATITIS, ATOPIC; ENVIRONMENT; HUMANS; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SANITATION; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 33847609283     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040072     Document Type: Review

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