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August 26, 2014BMJ

The "hygiene hypothesis" for allergic disease is a misnomer

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“Biome depletion” is a better term for how immune function is undermined in industrialized societies, writes William Parker, 25 years after The BMJ published David Strachan’s seminal hypothesis

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synapsesocial.com/papers/6a933c3adb0fe230f3f8edf7 https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.g5267

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