Neonatal airway colonization is associated with troublesome lung symptoms in infants

American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 188, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1041-1042

  Von Linstow, Marie Louise ^a   Schønning, Kristian ^a   Hoegh, Anne M ^a   Sevelsted, Astrid ^b   Vissing, Nadja H ^b   Bisgaard, Hans ^b  

^a Mental Health Services CPH   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTHMA; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; COUGHING; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFANT DISEASE; LETTER; LUNG DISEASE; MORAXELLA CATARRHALIS; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NOSE SMEAR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT; WHEEZING;

ASYMPTOMATIC INFECTIONS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COUGH; HAEMOPHILUS INFECTIONS; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MORAXELLA (BRANHAMELLA) CATARRHALIS; MORAXELLACEAE INFECTIONS; NASOPHARYNX; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESPIRATORY SOUNDS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 84886444990     PISSN: 1073449X     EISSN: 15354970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1164/rccm.201302-0395LE     Document Type: Letter

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