Does previous infection protect against atopic eczema and recurrent wheeze in infancy?

Clinical and Experimental Allergy

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 753-756

  Kramer, M S ^a,c   Guo, T ^a   Platt, R W ^a   Sevkovskaya, Z ^b   Dzikovich, I ^c   Collet, J P ^a   Shapiro, S ^a   Chalmers, B ^d,e   Hodnett, E ^e   Vanilovich, I ^c   Mezen, I ^b   Ducruet, T ^a   Shishko, G ^c   Bogdanovich, N ^c  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Ministry of Health Republic of Belarus   (Belarus)

^c Belarussian Matern Child Hlth R ^*  (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Asthma; Atopy; Infection; Wheezing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; BELARUS; BIRTH WEIGHT; BREAST FEEDING; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL INFECTION; HUMAN; HYGIENE; HYPOTHESIS; INCIDENCE; INFANCY; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; WHEEZING;

ADULT; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BREAST FEEDING; BYELARUS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DERMATITIS, ATOPIC; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; FEMALE; GASTROENTERITIS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; RESPIRATORY HYPERSENSITIVITY; RESPIRATORY SOUNDS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 2942579663     PISSN: 09547894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2222.2004.1940.x     Document Type: Article

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