A quantitative and relative increase in intestinal Bacteroides in allergic infants in rural Japan

Asian Pacific Journal of Allergy and Immunology

Volumn 26, Issue 2-3, 2008, Pages 113-119

  Suzuki, Shuichi ^a   Shimojo, Naoki ^a   Tajiri, Yoshito ^b   Kumemura, Megumi ^b   Kohno, Yoichi ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OTSUKA PHARMACEUTICAL CO LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLERGIC DISEASE; ARTICLE; BACTEROIDES; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; FECES MICROFLORA; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; JAPAN; MALE; PATHOGENESIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRICK TEST; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RURAL POPULATION; YEAST;

AGE FACTORS; BACTEROIDES; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; EPITOPES; FECES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; INFANT; INTESTINES; JAPAN; MALE; RURAL POPULATION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SKIN TESTS;

EID: 58149461396     PISSN: 0125877X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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