Sensitization to airborne allergens among adults and its impact on allergic symptoms: A population survey in northern Vietnam

Clinical and Translational Allergy

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Lâm, Hoàng Thi ^a,b   Ekerljung, Linda ^c   Bjerg, Anders ^c   Vən Tuòng, Nguyêñ ^a   Lundbäck, Bo ^c,d   Rönmark, Eva ^d,e  

^a HANOI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Viet Nam)

^b Service de Rhumatologie   (Viet Nam)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^d Norrbotten County Council   (Sweden)

^e UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Allergic rhinitis; Allergic sensitization; Asthma; Storage mite; Vietnam

Indexed keywords

HOUSE DUST ALLERGEN; METHACHOLINE; POLLEN ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ALLERGIC ASTHMA; ALLERGIC REACTION; ALLERGIC RHINITIS; ALLERGY TEST; ARTICLE; BLOMIA TROPICALIS; BRONCHUS HYPERREACTIVITY; COCKROACH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMATOPHAGOIDES FARINAE; DERMATOPHAGOIDES PTERONYSSINUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HOUSE DUST ALLERGY; HUMAN; INSECT ALLERGY; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOULD; NONHUMAN; POLLEN ALLERGY; PREVALENCE; PRICK TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROVOCATION TEST; RURAL AREA; SENSITIZATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; URBAN AREA; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE; VIET NAM; WHEEZING;

EID: 84978023953     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2045-7022-4-6     Document Type: Article

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