Sensitization to common aeroallergens in patients at an outpatient ENT clinic

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Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 79-85

  Nyembue, T D ^a,b   Vinck, A S ^b   Corvers, K ^b   Bruninx, L ^b   Hellings, P W ^b,c   Jorissen, Mark ^b,c  

^a University of Kinshasa Hospital   (Congo)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c Laboratory of Experimental Immunology KUL Belgium   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Aeroallergens; Outpatients; Rhinologic diseases; Sensitization

Indexed keywords

AEROALLERGEN; ALLERGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALLERGY; ARTICLE; BELGIUM; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMATOPHAGOIDES PTERONYSSINUS; FEMALE; GRASS POLLEN; HEADACHE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NASAL PRURITUS; NOSE DISEASE; NOSE OBSTRUCTION; OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGY; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PRICK TEST; RHINITIS; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSITIZATION; SNEEZING;

ADMINISTRATION, INHALATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALLERGENS; BELGIUM; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY, IMMEDIATE; IMMUNIZATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTPATIENT CLINICS, HOSPITAL; POLLEN; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79960280829     PISSN: 1781782X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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