Environmental intervention for house dust mite control in childhood bronchial asthma

Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 377-384

  El Ghitany, Engy M ^a   El Salam, Magda M Abd ^b,c  

^a High Institute of Public Health Egypt   (Egypt)

^b ALEXANDRIA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^c PRINCE SATTAM BIN ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Asthma; Children; Control; Environmental intervention; House dust mite

Indexed keywords

HOUSE DUST ALLERGEN; TANNIN;

ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CHEMICAL PEST CONTROL; CHILD; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMATOPHAGOIDES; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PEAK EXPIRATORY FLOW; PHYSICAL PEST CONTROL; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSITIZATION;

ACARICIDES; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, DERMATOPHAGOIDES; ARTHROPOD PROTEINS; ASTHMA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; DUST; EGYPT; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMANS; MALE; PEAK EXPIRATORY FLOW RATE; PYROGLYPHIDAE; TANNINS; TICK CONTROL;

PYROGLYPHIDAE;

EID: 84869491014     PISSN: 1342078X     EISSN: 13474715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12199-011-0263-5     Document Type: Article

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