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Working the bugs out of asthma.

Potera C.

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Gergen PJ, Mortimer KM, Eggleston PA, Rosenstreich D, Mitchell H, Ownby D, Kattan M, Baker D, Wright EC, Slavin R, Malveaux F.

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Results of a home-based environmental intervention among urban children with asthma.

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Educational intervention to control cockroach allergen exposure in the homes of hispanic children in Los Angeles: results of the La Casa study.

McConnell R, Milam J, Richardson J, Galvan J, Jones C, Thorne PS, Berhane K.

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Cockroach allergen levels and associations with cockroach-specific IgE.

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Leaderer BP, Belanger K, Triche E, Holford T, Gold DR, Kim Y, Jankun T, Ren P, McSharry Je JE, Platts-Mills TA, Chapman MD, Bracken MB.

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Environmental allergens and asthma morbidity in low-income children.

Turyk M, Curtis L, Scheff P, Contraras A, Coover L, Hernandez E, Freels S, Persky V.

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Huss K, Adkinson NF Jr, Eggleston PA, Dawson C, Van Natta ML, Hamilton RG.

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There are more asthmatics in homes with high cockroach infestation.

Sarinho E, Schor D, Veloso MA, Rizzo JA.

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On the front lines: an environmental asthma intervention in New York City.

Kinney PL, Northridge ME, Chew GL, Gronning E, Joseph E, Correa JC, Prakash S, Goldstein I.

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Inner City Asthma Study: relationships among sensitivity, allergen exposure, and asthma morbidity.

Gruchalla RS, Pongracic J, Plaut M, Evans R 3rd, Visness CM, Walter M, Crain EF, Kattan M, Morgan WJ, Steinbach S, Stout J, Malindzak G, Smartt E, Mitchell H.

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Determinants of allergen concentrations in apartments of asthmatic children living in public housing.

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Asthma in the third world: can environmental intervention improve childhood asthma in U.S. inner cities?

Chapman MD.

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Uzel A, Capan N, Canbakan S, Yurdakul AS, Dursun B.

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Allergy to cockroach antigens in asthmatic patients.

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Eotaxin represents the principal eosinophil chemoattractant in a novel murine asthma model induced by house dust containing cockroach allergens.

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Home and allergic characteristics of children with asthma in seven U.S. urban communities and design of an environmental intervention: the Inner-City Asthma Study.

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[Prevalence of allergy to cockroaches in the African intertropical zone. Review of the literature]

Ngom AS, Koffi N, Blessey M, Aka-Danguy E.

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