The relationship between advances in understanding the microbiome and the maturing hygiene hypothesis

Current Allergy and Asthma Reports

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 487-494

  Bendiks, Meike ^a   Kopp, Matthias Volkmar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Airway pathogens; Allergic rhinitis; Allergy; Asthma; Bacterial lysates; Children; Hygiene hypothesis; Microbiome; Prebiotics; Probiotics; Wheeze

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; PLACEBO; PREBIOTIC AGENT; PRO SYMBIOFLO; PRO SYMBIOFLOR; PROBIOTIC AGENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACINETOBACTER LWOFFII; ALLERGIC ASTHMA; ALLERGIC DISEASE; ALLERGIC RHINITIS; ALLERGY; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; ATOPY; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; CHILDBIRTH; CHILDHOOD; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMAN; HYGIENE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INTESTINE FLORA; LACTOBACILLUS RHAMNOSUS; MICROBIOME; MIXED INFECTION; MORAXELLA CATARRHALIS; NONHUMAN; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIZATION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; VIRAL RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; WHEEZING;

ANIMALS; ASTHMA; COINFECTION; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HUMANS; HYGIENE HYPOTHESIS; HYPERSENSITIVITY; MICROBIOTA;

EID: 84885176256     PISSN: 15297322     EISSN: 15346315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11882-013-0382-8     Document Type: Article

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