Environmental conditions, immunologic phenotypes, atopy, and asthma: New evidence of how the hygiene hypothesis operates in Latin America

Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Volumn 131, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Figueiredo, Camila Alexandrina ^a   Amorim, Leila D ^a   Alcantara Neves, Neuza M ^a   Matos, Sheila M A ^a   Cooper, Philip J ^b,c   Rodrigues, Laura C ^d   Barreto, Mauricio L ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF BAHIA   (Brazil)

^b LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSIDAD SAN FRANCISCO DE QUITO   (Ecuador)

^d LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

children; environment; hygiene hypothesis; immune phenotypes; infections; LCA; SCAALA

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 13; INTERLEUKIN 5;

ALLERGIC ASTHMA; ARTICLE; ATOPY; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYGIENE HYPOTHESIS; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; LEUKOCYTE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRICK TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; TH1 CELL;

EID: 84875735034     PISSN: 00916749     EISSN: 10976825     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaci.2013.01.016     Document Type: Article

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