Farming exposure in childhood, exposure to markers of infections and the development of atopy in rural subjects

Clinical and Experimental Allergy

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1178-1183

  Radon, K ^a,d   Windstetter, D ^a,b   Eckart, J ^a   Dressel, H ^a   Leitritz, L ^c   Reichert, J ^a   Schmid, M ^a   Praml, G ^a   Schosser, M ^a   Von Mutius, E ^b   Nowak, D ^a  

^a Institute and Outpatient Clinic for Occupational and Environmental Medicine   (Germany)

^b LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d Institute and Outpatient Clinic for Occupational   (Germany)

Author keywords

Allergy; Animal farming; Asthma; Atopy; Epidemiology; Field crop; Helicobacter pylori; Hygiene hypothesis; Toxoplasma gondii; Unpasteurized milk

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G;

ADULT; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL HOUSING; ARTICLE; ATOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE MARKER; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; GERMANY; HELICOBACTER INFECTION; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MILK; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; RURAL AREA; SEROLOGY; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

ADULT; AGRICULTURE; ALLERGENS; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; CATTLE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HELICOBACTER INFECTIONS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMANS; HYGIENE; HYPERSENSITIVITY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; INFANT; MILK; ODDS RATIO; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

EID: 4143150575     PISSN: 09547894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2222.2004.02005.x     Document Type: Article

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