Domestic Mite Antigens in Floor and Airborne Dust at Workplaces in Comparison to Living Areas: A New Immunoassay to Assess Personal Airborne Allergen Exposure

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Sander, Ingrid ^a   Zahradnik, Eva ^a   Kraus, Gerhard ^b   Mayer, Stefan ^b   Neumann, Heinz Dieter ^b   Fleischer, Christina ^a   Brüning, Thomas ^a   Raulf Heimsoth, Monika ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b INSTITUT FÜR ARBEITSSCHUTZ DER DEUTSCHEN GESETZLICHEN UNFALLVERSICHERUNG IFA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN; INSECT PROTEIN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; PARASITE ANTIGEN;

AIRBORNE PARTICLE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; BED; BUILDING; CATTLE FARMING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMATOPHAGOIDES FARINAE; DERMATOPHAGOIDES PTERONYSSINUS; DOMESTIC SPECIES; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; FEMALE; FOOD STORAGE; GRAIN; HOUSE DUST; LIMIT OF DETECTION; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; NONHUMAN; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; PROTEIN CONTENT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; WORKPLACE;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, DERMATOPHAGOIDES; CATTLE; DUST; FLOORS AND FLOORCOVERINGS; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; INHALATION EXPOSURE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PYROGLYPHIDAE; RABBITS; RADIOALLERGOSORBENT TEST; WORKPLACE;

ACARI; BOS; DERMATOPHAGOIDES FARINAE; PYROGLYPHIDAE;

EID: 84871369171     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0052981     Document Type: Article

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