Respiratory allergy caused by house dust mites: What do we really know?

Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Volumn 136, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 38-48

  Calderón, Moisés A ^a   Linneberg, Allan ^b,h   Kleine Tebbe, Jörg ^c   De Blay, Frédéric ^d   Hernandez Fernandez De Rojas, Dolores ^e   Virchow, Johann Christian ^f   Demoly, Pascal ^g  

^a ROYAL BROMPTON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b GLOSTRUP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^c Allergie and Asthma Zentrum Westend   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF STRASBOURG   (France)

^e INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIÓN SANITARIA DEL HOSPITAL CLÍNICO SAN CARLOS IDISSC   (Spain)

^f ROSTOCK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Germany)

^g MONTPELLIER UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^h UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Allergen; allergic asthma; allergic rhinitis; allergy; house dust mite; inflammation; respiratory allergic disease

Indexed keywords

HOUSE DUST ALLERGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E ANTIBODY; RAIN;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; AIRWAY REMODELING; ALLERGENICITY; ALLERGIC ASTHMA; ALLERGIC REACTION; ALLERGIC RHINITIS; DERMATOPHAGOIDES; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; EXPOSURE; HEREDITY; HOUSE DUST ALLERGY; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; INNATE IMMUNITY; LUNG FUNCTION; MICROHABITAT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT ALLERGY; REVIEW; SENSITIZATION; ANIMAL; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; EUROPE; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOLOGY; PREVALENCE; PYROGLYPHIDAE; RESPIRATORY HYPERSENSITIVITY;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, DERMATOPHAGOIDES; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; EUROPE; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION; PREVALENCE; PYROGLYPHIDAE; RESPIRATORY HYPERSENSITIVITY;

EID: 84936994894     PISSN: 00916749     EISSN: 10976825     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaci.2014.10.012     Document Type: Review

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