The evolution of the hygiene hypothesis: The role of early-life exposures to viruses and microbes and their relationship to asthma and allergic diseases

Current Opinion in Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 390-396

  Daley, Denise ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

allergies; asthma; human rhinovirus; microbiome; viruses

Indexed keywords

AIRWAY REMODELING; ALLERGIC DISEASE; ASTHMA; CHILD HOSPITALIZATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN RHINOVIRUS; HUMAN RHINOVIRUS C; HYGIENE HYPOTHESIS; IMMUNE RESPONSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PET ANIMAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SMOKING; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS STRAIN; WHEEZING; ADVERSE EFFECTS; BACTERIUM; COMPLICATION; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HYPERSENSITIVITY; IMMUNOLOGY; INFANT; INFECTION; MICROFLORA; MUCOSAL IMMUNITY; NEWBORN; VIRUS;

AIRWAY REMODELING; ASTHMA; BACTERIA; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; HYGIENE HYPOTHESIS; HYPERSENSITIVITY; IMMUNITY, MUCOSAL; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFECTION; MICROBIOTA; VIRUSES;

EID: 84906935271     PISSN: 15284050     EISSN: 14736322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACI.0000000000000101     Document Type: Review

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