Farm microbiome and childhood asthma [1]

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 364, Issue 20, 2011, Pages 1972-1973

  Gurwitz, David ^a   Lunshof, Jeantine E ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTHMA; BREAST FEEDING; CHILDHOOD ASTHMA; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FARM MICROBIOME; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LETTER; MICROBIOME; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES; AGRICULTURE; BACTERIUM; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HYPERSENSITIVITY; MICROBIOLOGY; NOTE; RISK FACTOR; RISK; HOUSE DUST; MICROBIAL COLONIZATION; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; ONSET AGE;

AGRICULTURE; ASTHMA; BACTERIA; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY; RISK FACTORS; BREAST FEEDING; ODDS RATIO;

EID: 79956209725     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMc1103356     Document Type: Letter

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