Microbial exposure and onset of allergic diseases - Potential prevention strategies?

Allergology International

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 3-10

  Pfefferle, Petra Ina ^a,b   Renz, Harald ^b,c  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Allergy prevention; Bacterial stimuli; Barker hypothesis; Hygiene hypothesis; Microbiota

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ALLERGIC DISEASE; CHRONIC INFLAMMATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FECES MICROFLORA; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; HYGIENE HYPOTHESIS; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOPROPHYLAXIS; INNATE IMMUNITY; INTESTINE FLORA; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY;

EID: 84896808457     PISSN: 13238930     EISSN: 14401592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2332/allergolint.13-RAI-0671     Document Type: Review

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