Recent 5-year trends of asthma severity and allergen sensitization among children in southern Thailand

Asian Pacific Journal of Allergy and Immunology

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 242-246

  Yuenyongviwat, Araya ^a   Koonrangsesomboon, Duangrachanee ^a   Sangsupawanich, Pasuree ^a  

^a PRINCE OF SONGKLA UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Allergen sensitization; Asthma; Asthma severity; Skin prick test; Thai children

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN;

ALLERGIC RHINITIS; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA COLLECTION METHOD; DERMATOPHAGOIDES; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRICK TEST; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSITIZATION; THAILAND; ANIMAL; CLINICAL TRIAL; COCKROACH; IMMUNOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PYROGLYPHIDAE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

ALLERGENS; ANIMALS; ASTHMA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COCKROACHES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PREVALENCE; PYROGLYPHIDAE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; THAILAND;

EID: 84887578924     PISSN: 0125877X     EISSN: 22288694     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.12932/AP0289.31.3.2013     Document Type: Article

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