Background The highly consistent association of growing up on a farm with a reduced
asthma risk has so far been attributed to direct farm exposure. In contrast, geographic …

We have previously found an inverse association of childhood asthma and fungal diversity by
classical culturing (Ege et al. NEJM 2011;364:701-9), which covers only a small minority of …

Background The prevalence of atopy is associated with a Western lifestyle, as shown by
studies comparing neighboring regions with different socioeconomic backgrounds. Atopy might …

Background Exposure to molds has been related to asthma risk both positively and negatively,
depending on the environmental setting. The pertinent results are based on generic …

The length of ostracod cypridoidean spermatozoa is exceptional, in both absolute and relative
values. However, only a small number of sperm measurements have actually been done …

Rural environments seem to prevent childhood asthma and atopy. In this study we investigate
how farming conditions shape the indoor microbiota and we identify exposures with …

Length measurements of sperms of 51 species of Cypridoidea ostracods were taken to
supplement the paucity of ostracod sperm data in the published literature. The lengths of the …

… Prevention is further discussed by Müller- Rompa et al3 with the GABRIELA study cohort.
Their interesting approach used geocoding of the homes of children living in rural areas and …

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In philosophy, historically, much attention has been given to the central question of philosophical
anthropology, namely,‘what constitutes a human being?’. However, it seems that the …