Life-course of atopy and allergy-related disease events in tropical sub-Saharan Africa: A birth cohort study

Pediatric Allergy and Immunology

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 377-383

  Lule, Swaib A ^a,b   Mpairwe, Harriet ^b   Nampijja, Margaret ^b   Akello, Florence ^b   Kabagenyi, Joyce ^b   Namara, Benigna ^b   Nkurunungi, Gyaviira ^a,b   Kizito, Dennison ^b   Kahwa, Joseph ^b   Muhangi, Lawrence ^b   Nash, Stephen ^a   Muwanga, Moses ^c   Webb, Emily L ^a   Elliott, Alison M ^a,b  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b MRC/UVRI Uganda Research Unit   (Uganda)

^c Entebbe Hospital   (Uganda)

Author keywords

Africa; atopy; birth cohort; conjunctivitis; eczema; rhinitis; Uganda; urticaria; wheeze

Indexed keywords

ALLERGIC ASTHMA; ALLERGIC RHINITIS; ALLERGY; ARTICLE; ATOPY; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPNEA; ECZEMA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INFANCY; LIFE EVENT; LIVE BIRTH; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PRICK TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SCHOOL CHILD; TROPICS; UGANDAN; URTICARIA; WHEEZING; ABNORMAL RESPIRATORY SOUND; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; COMORBIDITY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; IMMEDIATE TYPE HYPERSENSITIVITY; IMMUNOLOGY; POVERTY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SKIN TEST; UGANDA;

ALLERGEN;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ALLERGENS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY, IMMEDIATE; MALE; POVERTY; PREVALENCE; RESPIRATORY SOUNDS; SKIN TESTS; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; UGANDA;

EID: 85019484774     PISSN: 09056157     EISSN: 13993038     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/pai.12719     Document Type: Article

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