Epidemiology of allergic conjunctivitis

Current Opinion in Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 471-476

  Rosario, Nelson ^a   Bielory, Leonard ^b,c  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ   (Brazil)

^b Center for Environmental Prediction   (United States)

^c Rutgers University   (United States)

Author keywords

allergic conjunctivitis; conjunctivitis; epidemiology; rhinoconjunctivitis

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ALLERGIC ASTHMA; ALLERGIC CONJUNCTIVITIS; ALLERGIC RHINITIS; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIPHORA; HAY FEVER; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; NOSE ALLERGY; NOSE CONGESTION; OCULAR PRURITUS; PERENNIAL RHINITIS; POLLEN ALLERGY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; REVIEW; RHINOCONJUNCTIVITIS; RISK FACTOR; SEASONAL ALLERGIC CONJUNCTIVITIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN TEST;

ASTHMA; CHILD; COMORBIDITY; CONJUNCTIVITIS, ALLERGIC; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EYE; HUMANS; PARANASAL SINUSES; PREVALENCE; RHINITIS, ALLERGIC, SEASONAL;

EID: 80052434996     PISSN: 15284050     EISSN: 14736322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACI.0b013e32834a9676     Document Type: Review

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