Most Personal Exposure to House Dust Mite Aeroallergen Occurs during the Day

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Tovey, Euan R ^a,b   Willenborg, Christiana M ^c   Crisafulli, Daniele A ^a   Rimmer, Janet ^a,b   Marks, Guy B ^a,b  

^a WOOLCOCK INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c PRINCE OF WALES HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOUSE DUST ALLERGEN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BED; CLOTHING; CONTROLLED STUDY; COSMOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; CROWDING; DAY; DERMATOPHAGOIDES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NIGHT; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT; TRAVEL;

EID: 84880770466     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0069900     Document Type: Article

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