Clinical significance of Alternaria alternata sensitization in patients with allergic rhinitis

American Journal of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Medicine and Surgery

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 232-238

  Katotomichelakis, Michael ^a   Anastassakis, Kostas ^a   Gouveris, Haralampos ^a   Tripsianis, Gregory ^a   Paraskakis, Emmanouil ^a   Maroudias, Nikolaos ^a   Danielides, Vassilios ^a  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ALLERGIC RHINITIS; ALTERNARIA ALTERNATA; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BRONCHITIS; BUILDING; CAT; CHENOPODIUM; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; CONJUNCTIVITIS; COUGHING; DERMATOPHAGOIDES FARINAE; DERMATOPHAGOIDES PTERONYSSINUS; ECZEMA; FEMALE; FLOUR; GRASS; GREECE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SENSITIZATION; SEX RATIO; SKIN TEST; URBAN AREA; URTICARIA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGE OF ONSET; AGED; ALTERNARIA; ANTIGENS, FUNGAL; CHILD; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GREECE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RHINITIS, ALLERGIC, PERENNIAL; RISK FACTORS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SEX FACTORS; SKIN TESTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84857787766     PISSN: 01960709     EISSN: 1532818X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjoto.2011.07.004     Document Type: Article

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