The hygiene hypothesis revisited: Does exposure to infectious agents protect us from allergy?

Current Opinion in Pediatrics

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 98-102

  Fishbein, Anna B ^a   Fuleihan, Ramsay L ^a  

^a CHILDREN'S MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

allergy; farm rearing; hygiene hypothesis; infection; regulatory cells

Indexed keywords

HOUSE DUST ALLERGEN;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ALLERGY; ATOPY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HEREDITY; HUMAN; HYGIENE HYPOTHESIS; INNATE IMMUNITY; PATHOGENESIS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; VIRUS INFECTION;

ANIMALS; ASTHMA; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYGIENE HYPOTHESIS; HYPERSENSITIVITY, IMMEDIATE; LIFE STYLE; MALE; RISK FACTORS; RISK REDUCTION BEHAVIOR; T-LYMPHOCYTES, REGULATORY;

EID: 84856105737     PISSN: 10408703     EISSN: 1531698X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MOP.0b013e32834ee57c     Document Type: Review

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