Treating childhood allergy with gut microbes: Facts or fiction?

British Journal of Dermatology

Volumn 166, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-2

  Bjorksten B ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PREBIOTIC AGENT;

ALLERGIC ASTHMA; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; IMMUNOREGULATION; INFECTIOUS DIARRHEA; INTESTINE FLORA; LACTOBACILLUS; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACTERIA; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY; IMMUNITY, HUMORAL; PROBIOTICS;

EID: 84555190182     PISSN: 00070963     EISSN: 13652133     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2133.2011.10753.x     Document Type: Editorial

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