Has ISAAC told us as much as it can? Where now?

Thorax

Volumn 64, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 462-463

  Partridge, Martyn R ^a  

^a CHARING CROSS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN; TOBACCO SMOKE;

ADOLESCENT; AIR POLLUTION; ALLERGY; ASTHMA; BREAST FEEDING; CESAREAN SECTION; CHILD; CLIMATE CHANGE; DIET; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DRUG USE; EDITORIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HEATING; HOME ENVIRONMENT; HUMAN; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; NEWBORN INFECTION; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL PNEUMOVIRUS; RISK FACTOR; WHEEZING;

EID: 67249120470     PISSN: 00406376     EISSN: 14683296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/thx.2008.114157     Document Type: Editorial

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