Chronic virus infections supress atopy but not asthma in a set of children from a large latin american city: A cross-section study

BMC Pulmonary Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Veiga, Rafael V ^a,b   Cunha, Sergio S ^a,c   Dattoli, Vitor C C ^a,b   Cruz, Álvaro C ^a,b   Cooper, Phillip J ^a,d,e   Rodrigues, Laura C ^a,f   Barreto, Maurício L ^a,b   Alcantara Neves, Neuza M ^a,b  

^a Asthma and Allergy in Latin America) Research Program   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF BAHIA   (Brazil)

^c Federal University of Pernambuco   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSIDAD SAN FRANCISCO DE QUITO   (Ecuador)

^e LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^f LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; ATOPY; BRAZIL; CHILD; CITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GENDER; HEPATITIS A VIRUS; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRICK TEST; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; SEROPREVALENCE; SYMPTOM; URBAN AREA; VARICELLA ZOSTER VIRUS; VIRUS INFECTION; BLOOD; CHRONIC DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; IMMEDIATE TYPE HYPERSENSITIVITY; IMMUNOLOGY; PREVALENCE; SIMPLEXVIRUS; STATISTICAL MODEL; URBAN POPULATION;

ASTHMA; BRAZIL; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHRONIC DISEASE; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HEPATITIS A VIRUS; HERPESVIRUS 3, HUMAN; HERPESVIRUS 4, HUMAN; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY, IMMEDIATE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; PREVALENCE; SIMPLEXVIRUS; URBAN POPULATION; VIRUS DISEASES;

EID: 79955876835     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712466     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2466-11-24     Document Type: Article

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