Childhood infections and asthma: At the crosscroads of the hygiene and Barker hypotheses

Respiratory Research

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 324-327

  Tantisira, Kelan G ^a   Weiss, Scott T ^a  

^a CHANNING LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Asthma; Child; Fetal programming; Gene by environment; Infection

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASTHMA; ATOPY; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; IMMUNOPATHOGENESIS; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; INFANCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEWBORN; ONTOGENY; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; SCHOOL CHILD; TH2 CELL;

ASTHMA; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; HYGIENE; INFECTION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 0035722777     PISSN: 14659921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/rr81     Document Type: Article

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