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Title Hygiene theory and allergy and asthma prevention.
Author Liu AH.
Date 2007
Description This paper outlines the hygiene hypothesis that early life exposure to microbes builds immunity and prevents allergies and asthma. It also reviews epidemiological evidence for this hypothesis.
Keywords asthma, children
URL http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17935569
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