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Animal exposure, sensitization, and allergic symptoms in first-year veterinary medicine students.
Allergologie select    March 21, 2024   Volume 8 51-63 doi: 10.5414/ALX02449E
Zahradnik E, Nöllenheidt C, Sander I, Beine A, Lehnert M, Hoffmeyer F, Raulf M.The AllergoVet study longitudinally examines the influence of animal exposure on the development of sensitization and allergic diseases among veterinary medicine students. In this group, contact to animals usually existed long before the study began. Therefore, the aim of this analysis was to investigate lifelong animal species-specific exposure and the prevalence of sensitizations and allergic symptoms already existing before the start of the study. Questionnaire data, including exposure history, were summarized to determine the duration and intensity of animal-related exposure as well as the...