The Hygiene Hypothesis and Darwinian Medicine

Man has moved rapidly from the hunter-gatherer environment to the living conditions of the rich industrialised countries. The hygiene hypothesis suggests that the resulting changed and reduced pattern of exposure to micro-organisms has led to disordered regulation of the immune system, and hence to...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Rook, Graham A. W. (Editor)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Basel : Birkhũser Basel, 2009.
Series:Progress in Inflammation Research
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Online Access:https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7643-8903-1