Is influenza vaccination in asthmatic children helpful?

Clinical and Experimental Allergy

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 21-25

  Bueving, H J ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMANTADINE; ANTIVIRUS AGENT; INFLUENZA VACCINE; LIVE VACCINE; OSELTAMIVIR; RIMANTADINE; SIALIDASE INHIBITOR; ZANAMIVIR;

AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ASTHMA; CLINICAL TRIAL; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; COUGHING; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA A; INFLUENZA VACCINATION; INFLUENZA VIRUS; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; REVIEW; SYSTEMIC DISEASE; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT;

ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; ASTHMA; CHILD; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION; INCIDENCE; INFLUENZA VACCINES; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; LUNG; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33645034523     PISSN: 09547894     EISSN: 13652222     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2222.2005.02404.x     Document Type: Review

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