Could inhaled mite faeces introduce pathogens to the lungs?

Microbes and Infection

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 452-453

  Martínez Girón, Rafael ^a   van Woerden, Hugo ^b   Ribas Barceló, Andrés ^a,c  

^a Fundacion INCLINICA   (Spain)

^b SPRINGFIELD UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO CENTRAL DE ASTURIAS   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLERGIC DISEASE; ASTHMA; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; BLOMIA; CONJUNCTIVITIS; DERMATOPHAGOIDES; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FECES; HUMAN; LETTER; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT; LUNG INJURY; MITE; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RHINOSINUSITIS;

ANIMALS; FECES; HUMANS; INHALATION EXPOSURE; LUNG DISEASES; MITES;

ACARI;

EID: 43049135520     PISSN: 12864579     EISSN: 1769714X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.micinf.2007.12.017     Document Type: Letter

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