Running title: Ambient air pollution and atopic and non-atopic
eczema in adults
Diego J. Lopez1, Caroline J. Lodge1,
Dinh S. Bui1, Nilakshi T
Waidyatillake1, John C. Su2,3, Jenny
L Perret1, Luke D. Knibbs4, Bircan
Erbas5,Paul S. Thomas6, Garun S.
Hamilton7,8, Bruce R Thompson9,
Michael J Abramson10, E. Haydn
Walters1,11, Shyamali Dharmage1,
Gayan Bowatte1, Adrian J. Lowe1
1 Allergy and Lung Health Unit, the University of Melbourne, Melbourne,
VIC, Australia
2 Department of Dermatology, Monash University, Eastern Health and the
Population allergy group,
3 Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, University of Melbourne,
Melbourne, VIC, Australia
4 Faculty of Medicine, School of Public Health, The University of
Queensland, Herston, QLD, Australia
5 School of Psychology and Public Health, La Trobe University,
Melbourne, VIC
6 Prince of Wales’ Clinical School, and Mechanisms of Disease and
Translational Research, Faculty of Medicine, UNSW and Prince of Wales’
Hospital, Sydney, NSW.School of
7 Department of Lung and Sleep Medicine, Monash Health, Melbourne, VIC,
Australia
8 School of Clinical Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC,
Australia
9 School of Heath Sciences, Swinburne University of Technology,
Melbourne, VIC
10 School of Public Health & Preventive Medicine, Monash University,
Melbourne, VIC
11 Medicine, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS
Adrian J. Lowe and Gayan Bowatte should be considered joint senior
author