Swimming pool attendance and respiratory symptoms and allergies among Dutch children

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 69, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 823-830

  Jacobs, José H ^a   Fuertes, Elaine ^a   Krop, Esmeralda J M ^a   Spithoven, Jack ^a   Tromp, Peter ^b   Heederik, Dick J J ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN; CHLORAMINE DERIVATIVE; CLARA CELL PROTEIN; CLARA CELL PROTEIN 16; TRICHLORAMINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADOLESCENT; ALLERGIC ASTHMA; ALLERGIC RHINITIS; ALLERGY; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; BIRCH; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMATOPHAGOIDES; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HOUSE DUST ALLERGY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POLLEN ALLERGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SENSITIZATION; SWIMMING POOL; SYMPTOM; WHEEZING;

ANIMALS; BETULA; CHILD; CHLORIDES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY; IMMUNOMODULATION; INFANT; IRRITANTS; MALE; NETHERLANDS; NITROGEN COMPOUNDS; ODDS RATIO; POLLEN; PYROGLYPHIDAE; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES; SWIMMING; SWIMMING POOLS;

PYROGLYPHIDAE;

EID: 84867696894     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: 14707926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oemed-2011-100621     Document Type: Article

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