Microbial colonization and atopic dermatitis

Current Opinion in Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 373-378

  Roll, Antonie ^a   Cozzio, Antonio ^a   Fischer, Barbra ^a   Schmid Grendelmeier, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Atopic dermatitis; Malassezia; Microbial colonization; Staphylococcus aureus; Superantigen

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; GLUCOCORTICOID; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; KETOCONAZOLE; PIMECROLIMUS; SILVER; STEROID; SUPERANTIGEN; TACROLIMUS;

ATOPIC DERMATITIS; ATOPY; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELL PROLIFERATION; COPRINUS; CRYPTOCOCCUS; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE RESISTANCE; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; HYGIENE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOMODULATION; MALASSEZIA; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW; SIDE EFFECT; SKIN ALLERGY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; T LYMPHOCYTE; TH2 CELL; UPREGULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; CHILD; DERMATITIS, ATOPIC; HUMANS; MALASSEZIA; MYCOSES; STAPHYLOCOCCAL SKIN INFECTIONS; SUPERANTIGENS;

EID: 4644310774     PISSN: 15284050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00130832-200410000-00008     Document Type: Review

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