The human microbiome, asthma, and allergy

Allergy, Asthma and Clinical Immunology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Riiser, Amund ^a  

^a WESTERN NORWAY UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

Allergy; Asthma; Microbiome

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 5; OVALBUMIN; PROBIOTIC AGENT;

ACINETOBACTER; ACTINOBACTERIA; ALLERGY; ANAEROCOCCUS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; ASTHMA; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTEROIDETES; BIODIVERSITY; CELL POPULATION; CESAREAN SECTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DRUG EFFICACY; FIRMICUTES; FOLLOW UP; FOOD ALLERGY; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENOTYPE; HAEMOPHILUS; HUMAN; HYGIENE HYPOTHESIS; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; INCIDENCE; MICROBIAL COLONIZATION; MICROBIOME; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PEPTOCLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; PREVOTELLA; PROTEOBACTERIA; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; STANDARDIZATION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; TH1 CELL; TH2 CELL; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WHEEZING;

EID: 84949656199     PISSN: 17101484     EISSN: 17101492     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13223-015-0102-0     Document Type: Review

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