Small nonspecialized farming as a protective factor against immediate-type occupational respiratory allergy?

Allergy: European Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Volumn 59, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1294-1300

  Walusiak, J ^a,b   Krawczyk Adamus, P ^a   Hanke, W ^b   Wittczak, T ^a   Palczynski C ^a  

^a Occup and Environ Allergy Centre   (Poland)

^b NOFER INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Farmers; Hygiene hypothesis; Occupational asthma; Occupational rhinitis

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN; HISTAMINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E ANTIBODY; PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CEREAL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMATOPHAGOIDES; EPIDERMIS; FEATHER; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; GRASS POLLEN; HUMAN; HYGIENE; LUNG FUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITE; MOULD; OCCUPATIONAL ALLERGY; OCCUPATIONAL ASTHMA; PEAK EXPIRATORY FLOW; POLAND; PREVALENCE; PRICK TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTION; PROVOCATION TEST; QUESTIONNAIRE; RADIOALLERGOSORBENT TEST; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RHINITIS; RISK FACTOR; SKIN TEST; SPIROMETRY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

AGRICULTURAL WORKERS' DISEASES; ALLERGENS; ANIMALS; BRONCHIAL PROVOCATION TESTS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CEREALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POLAND; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESPIRATORY HYPERSENSITIVITY; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; SKIN TESTS;

EID: 8644282631     PISSN: 01054538     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1398-9995.2004.00560.x     Document Type: Article

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