Allergens and thunderstorm asthma

Current Allergy and Asthma Reports

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 384-390

  Nasser, Shuaib M ^a   Pulimood, Thomas B ^b  

^a CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN;

AIRBORNE PARTICLE; ALTERNARIA; BRONCHUS HYPERREACTIVITY; CLADOSPORIUM; CLIMATE CHANGE; DIDYMELLA EXITIALIS; DISEASE EXACERBATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EXTRINSIC ASTHMA; FUNGUS; FUNGUS SPORE; GRASS POLLEN; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PARIETARIA; REVIEW; SENSITIZATION; THUNDERSTORM ASTHMA;

ALLERGENS; ALTERNARIA; ANTIGENS, FUNGAL; ASTHMA; CLIMATIC PROCESSES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; POLLEN; SPORES, FUNGAL;

EID: 68949164848     PISSN: 15297322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11882-009-0056-8     Document Type: Review

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