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      The hygienic hypothesis and transformations in etiological knowledge: from causal ontology to ontogenesis of the body Translated title: A hipótese higiênica e transformações etiológicas: da ontologia causal à ontogênese do corpo

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          The objective of this article is to systematize the principal recent research results pertaining to the so-called hygienic hypothesis, which establishes an etiological link between the increasing incidence of allergic diseases and the decreasing incidence of infectious diseases in the industrialized countries of the Western world. The author contends that the current debate on the hygienic hypothesis indicates significant transformations in the understanding of disease etiology, perhaps even as important as the transformations in the 19th century during the process leading to the constitution of modern medicine and the identification of infectious disease causal agents.

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          O objetivo deste artigo é de sistematizar os principais achados de pesquisa em relação à chamada hipótese higiênica, que estabelece um elo etiológico entre o aumento de incidência de doenças alérgicas e a incidência decrescente de doenças infecciosas nos países industrializados do Ocidente. O autor afirma que o debate atual sobre a hipótese higiênica revela transformações significativas na compreensão da etiologia das doenças, talvez tão importantes quanto as mudanças no século XIX que levaram à constituição da medicina moderna e à identificação dos agentes causais das doenças infecciosas.

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          Mechanisms of disease: the effect of infections on susceptibility to autoimmune and allergic diseases

          JF Bach (2002)
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            Cadernos de Saúde Pública
            Cad. Saúde Pública
            Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública Sergio Arouca, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (Rio de Janeiro )
            1678-4464
            August 2005
            : 21
            : 4
            : 1168-1176
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            [1 ] Fundação Oswaldo Cruz Brazil
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            S0102-311X2005000400019
            10.1590/S0102-311X2005000400019
            724d3cbc-c193-4324-b09b-60094b784d82

            http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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            Health Policy & Services

            Public health
            Asthma,Communicable Diseases,Causality,Allergy,Immune System,Asma,Doenças Transmissíveis,Causalidade,Alergia,Sistema Imune

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