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Public Health struggles to square hygiene with diversity
Author(s) -
Hunter Philip
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
embo reports
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.584
H-Index - 184
eISSN - 1469-3178
pISSN - 1469-221X
DOI - 10.15252/embr.202051540
Subject(s) - diversity (politics) , square (algebra) , hygiene , public health , political science , environmental health , geography , socioeconomics , sociology , medicine , mathematics , nursing , law , geometry , pathology
The ‘Hygiene Hypothesis’ to explain the rise in allergies is being replaced by a more nuanced picture of how the immune system interacts with environmental microbes.