Are environmental controls effective for house-dust-mite allergies?;¿Son eficaces las normas ambientales en la alergia a ácaros?

Archivos de Bronconeumologia

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 389-391

  Valero, A ^a   Serrano, C ^a  

^a HOSPITAL CLÍNIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTHMA; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DERMATOPHAGOIDES FARINAE; DERMATOPHAGOIDES PTERONYSSINUS; EDITORIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HOUSE DUST ALLERGY; PARTICULATE MATTER; RESPIRATORY TRACT ALLERGY; RHINITIS; ADULT; ANIMAL; CAT; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DESENSITIZATION; DOG; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DUST; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; INFANT; METHODOLOGY; MITE; NEWBORN; PERENNIAL RHINITIS; PRIMARY PREVENTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK FACTOR;

ALLERGEN; PLACEBO;

ADULT; ALLERGENS; ANIMALS; ASTHMA; CATS; CHILD; DERMATITIS, ATOPIC; DESENSITIZATION, IMMUNOLOGIC; DOGS; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; DUST; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MITES; PLACEBOS; PRIMARY PREVENTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; RESPIRATORY HYPERSENSITIVITY; RHINITIS, ALLERGIC, PERENNIAL; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 4744340398     PISSN: 03002896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1157/13065171     Document Type: Editorial

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