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Airborne house dust mite antigen after vacuum cleaning
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This article is published in The Lancet.The article was published on 1990-08-18. It has received 46 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: House dust mite.read more
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35 – Allergen Avoidance
Adnan Custovic,Ashley Woodcock +1 more
TL;DR: Allergen exposure is a risk factor for sensitisation, prevalence and severity of allergic disease, and effective allergen avoidance strategies have been devised.
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Asthma and Sensitization Pattern in Children
TL;DR: This presentation describes specific IgE levels to several common aeroallergens in asthmatic and nonasthmatic children, searches for a possible correlation between the number of sensitizations and the development of asthma and correlations between age, gender, social and migration status and rural or urban residency of the children and their sensitization status.
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Recommandations concernant l'étude des méthodes d'éviction des allergènes des acariens
TL;DR: In this article, a certain nombre d'entreprises insistent sur le role anti-allergique des produits qu'elles fabriquent, en raison de l'augmentation de leur frequence dans les pays developpes, sont devenus des pathologies importantes for la sante publique.
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The house-dust mite (Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus) and the allergens it produces. Identity with the house-dust allergen
TL;DR: The finding of the house-dust mite seems to supply an answer to all factors, and the keystone of the theory is formed by the fact that after being made equivalent, extracts of house dust and mite cultures gave skin reactions which were both qualitatively and quantitatively indistinguishable.
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Reducing house-dust mites by vacuuming.
TL;DR: Two types of nozzles were compared for efficiency in extracting dust and house-dust mites from textile floor-coverings and the motorized nozzle appeared to be significantly more effective in extracts dust; however, for the mites no such difference could be noted.