Aeroallergens in clinical practice of allergy in India - ARIA asia pacific workshop report

Asian Pacific Journal of Allergy and Immunology

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 245-256

  Singh, Anand B ^a   Shahi, Shipra ^a  

^a CSIR INSTITUTE OF GENOMICS AND INTEGRATIVE BIOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN; CANNABIS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E ANTIBODY; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; POLLEN ANTIGEN; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

AEROSOL; AIR POLLUTANT; AIRBORNE FUNGUS; ALLERGENICITY; ALLERGIC DISEASE; ALLERGIC RHINITIS; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CROSS REACTION; DAIRYING; DERMATOPHAGOIDES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FUNGUS SPORE; GRASS; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; INDIA; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; LIBRARY; ORGANISMS BY GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; PLANT; PLANT IDENTIFICATION; POLLEN; POLLEN ALLERGY; POLLEN FRUIT SYNDROME; POULTRY; SEASONAL VARIATION; WASTE; HYPERSENSITIVITY; IMMUNOLOGY;

AIR POLLUTANTS; ALLERGENS; CROSS REACTIONS; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY; INDIA; POLLEN;

EID: 64249167044     PISSN: 0125877X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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