Wednesday, 7 December 2011: 15:25 - 15:45
Gran Cancún 1 (Cancún Center)
Homer Boushey, MD
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Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Learning Objectives:
1. To be able to describe the effects of pet dogs and cats on microbioal community composition of house dust.
1. To be able to describe the effects of pet dogs and cats on microbioal community composition of house dust.
2. To be able to describe the possible mechanisms linking differences in house dust microbiota to differences in rates of allergy and asthma in household residents.
3. To be able to describe the possible relationship between housedust microbiota and the high rates of asthma in inner city households in the U.S.