Moulds and asthma: time for indoor climate change?
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Moulds and asthma: time for indoor climate change?
T he spectre of indoor moulds as a contributor to respiratory disease keeps raising its fruiting body and just won’t go away. Numerous studies support a circumstantial and temporal link between high mould exposure and worse symptoms in susceptible individuals. However, it seems that the majority of respiratory physicians (at least in Europe) are at best non-believers. They are reluctant to cons...
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عنوان ژورنال: Thorax
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0040-6376
DOI: 10.1136/thx.2007.079699