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Allergen Avoidance: Cockroach and Rodent Avoidance

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  1. Division of Allergic Diseases, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA

    Shefali Samant

  2. Division of Allergic Diseases, Mayo Clinic, 200 First Street SW, Rochester, MN, 55905, USA

    James T. Li

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  1. Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia

    Ian R. Mackay

  2. Center for Autoimmune Disease Research, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA

    Noel R. Rose

  3. Division of Allergy and Immunology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine, James A. Haley Veterans' Hospital, Tampa, FL, USA

    Dennis K. Ledford

  4. Division of Allergy and Immunology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine, James A. Haley Veterans' Hospital, Tampa, FL, USA

    Richard F. Lockey

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Samant, S., Li, J.T. (2014). Allergen Avoidance: Cockroach and Rodent Avoidance. In: Mackay, I.R., Rose, N.R., Ledford, D.K., Lockey, R.F. (eds) Encyclopedia of Medical Immunology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-9194-1_521

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