Asthma and neonatal airway colonization [1]

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 358, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 423-425

  Michelow, Ian C ^a   Fracchia, Mary S ^a   Kinane, Thomas B ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRWAY; ASTHMA; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; GENETIC RISK; HUMAN; LETTER; MYCOPLASMA HOMINIS; NEWBORN INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TH1 CELL; UREAPLASMA UREALYTICUM; WHEEZING; ABNORMAL RESPIRATORY SOUND; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CESAREAN SECTION; HYPOPHARYNX; MICROBIOLOGY; NEWBORN; NOTE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; RISK FACTOR; SIBLING;

ASTHMA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CESAREAN SECTION; HUMANS; HYPOPHARYNX; INFANT, NEWBORN; RESPIRATORY SOUNDS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; RISK FACTORS; SIBLINGS;

EID: 38549152970     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMc073134     Document Type: Letter

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