Metropolitan home living conditions associated with indoor endotoxin levels
JE Gereda, MD Klinnert, MR Price, DYM Leung… - Journal of Allergy and …, 2001 - Elsevier
Background: Household endotoxin exposure in allergy and asthma has been gaining
attention for its dual potential to exacerbate these conditions in individuals with established
disease and to abrogate atopy before disease onset. Objective: We sought to better
understand the home environmental and lifestyle factors influencing house dust endotoxin
levels. Methods: From the homes of 86 infants with wheeze in metropolitan Denver,
Colorado, house dust endotoxin (detected with a standardized Limulus Amebocyte Lysate …
attention for its dual potential to exacerbate these conditions in individuals with established
disease and to abrogate atopy before disease onset. Objective: We sought to better
understand the home environmental and lifestyle factors influencing house dust endotoxin
levels. Methods: From the homes of 86 infants with wheeze in metropolitan Denver,
Colorado, house dust endotoxin (detected with a standardized Limulus Amebocyte Lysate …