Antibiotics in the first week of life is a risk factor for allergic rhinitis at school age

Pediatric Allergy and Immunology

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 468-472

  Alm, Bernt ^a   Goksör, Emma ^a   Pettersson, Rolf ^a   Möllborg, Per ^a   Erdes, Laslo ^a   Loid, Petra ^a   Åberg, Nils ^a   Wennergren, Göran ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Allergic rhinitis; Antibiotics; Epidemiology; Farm living; Infant; Newborn

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ALLERGIC RHINITIS; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD PARENT RELATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEWBORN; ONSET AGE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RHINITIS, ALLERGIC; SWEDEN;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RHINITIS, ALLERGIC; RISK FACTORS; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; SWEDEN;

EID: 84907597732     PISSN: 09056157     EISSN: 13993038     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/pai.12244     Document Type: Article

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