Acknowledgments
This work was part of a larger study entitled “Environnement biologique et risque allergique” (EBRA), supported by the ANSES (Agence Nationale de Sécurité Sanitaire de l'Alimentation, de l'Environnement et du Travail), reference number: EST 2010-40 and by the ELFE consortium (Etude Longitudinale Française depuis l'Enfance).
We thank the “Reseau d'Allergologie de Franche-Comte” (RAFT) for patient recruitment and mattress dust collection (MD JM RAME and H. AMARI). The authors are grateful to Frances Sheppard of the Clinical Investigation Center (Inserm) of Besancon for her editorial assistance.