Expanding the Hygiene Hypothesis: Early Exposure to Infectious Agents Predicts Delayed-Type Hypersensitivity to Candida among Children in Kilimanjaro

BACKGROUND: Multiple lines of evidence suggest that infections in early life prevent the development of pathological immune responses to allergens and autoantigens (the hygiene hypothesis). Early infections may also affect later immune responses to pathogen antigen. METHODS: To evaluate an associati...

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Autores principales: Wander, Katherine, O'Connor, Kathleen, Shell-Duncan, Bettina
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3355133/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22616000
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0037406

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3355133/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22616000
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0037406

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