Hygiene, atopy and wheeze-eczema-rhinitis symptoms in schoolchildren from urban and rural Ecuador

Thorax

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 232-239

  Cooper, Philip J ^a,b,c   Vaca, Maritza ^a   Rodriguez, Alejandro ^a   Chico, Martha E ^a   Santos, Darci N ^d   Rodrigues, Laura C ^e   Barreto, Mauricio L ^d  

^a Laboratorio de Investigaciones   (Ecuador)

^b LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DEL ECUADOR   (Ecuador)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF BAHIA   (Brazil)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ATOPY; BIRTH ORDER; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ECUADOR; ECZEMA; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HELMINTHIASIS; HUMAN; HYGIENE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRICK TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RHINITIS; RURAL AREA; URBAN AREA; WHEEZING; ABNORMAL RESPIRATORY SOUND; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FECES; HOUSING; IMMEDIATE TYPE HYPERSENSITIVITY; IMMUNOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RISK FACTOR; RURAL POPULATION; SCHOOL; SKIN TEST; STATISTICS; STUDENT; URBAN POPULATION; URBAN-RURAL; WHEEZE-RHINITIS-ECZEMA;

ALLERGEN;

ATOPY; FARMING; HYGIENE; URBAN-RURAL; WHEEZE-RHINITIS-ECZEMA;

ADOLESCENT; ALLERGENS; ANIMALS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ECUADOR; ECZEMA; FECES; FEMALE; HOUSING; HUMANS; HYGIENE; HYPERSENSITIVITY, IMMEDIATE; MALE; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESPIRATORY SOUNDS; RHINITIS; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; SCHOOLS; SKIN TESTS; STUDENTS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84899493343     PISSN: 00406376     EISSN: 14683296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/thoraxjnl-2013-203818     Document Type: Article

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