Acute Respiratory Infections

Vitamin D and the Lung: Mechanisms and Disease Associations

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 181-200

  Mansbach, Jonathan M ^a   Camargo, Carlos A ^b  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Bronchiolitis; Influenza; Pneumonia; Respiratory infections; Respiratory syncytial virus; Wheezing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866923549     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-61779-888-7_9     Document Type: Chapter

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