The allergy epidemic: Can helminths supply the antidote?

Clinical and Experimental Allergy

Volumn 40, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1586-1589

  Robinson, K ^a   Bradley, J E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 13; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 5; INTERLEUKIN 9; IVERMECTIN;

ALLERGIC ASTHMA; ALLERGIC RHINITIS; ALLERGY; ASCARIASIS; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; BASOPHIL; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; EDITORIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EOSINOPHIL; EPIDEMIC; HELMINTH; HELMINTHIASIS; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOREGULATION; LIFESTYLE; MAST CELL; ONCHOCERCIASIS; PHENOTYPE; PRICK TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SANITATION; SKIN ALLERGY; TRICHURIASIS; URBANIZATION;

ANTHELMINTICS; ANTIGENS, HELMINTH; ASTHMA, EXERCISE-INDUCED; CONJUNCTIVITIS, ALLERGIC; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; ECZEMA; EPIDEMICS; HELMINTHIASIS; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY; PREVALENCE; RHINITIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SKIN TESTS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 78649430295     PISSN: 09547894     EISSN: 13652222     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2222.2010.03613.x     Document Type: Editorial

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