Microbial airway colonization: A cause of asthma and pneumonia?

American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 188, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1188-1189

  Ege, Markus ^a   Von Mutius, Erika ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTHMA; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BRONCHIOLITIS; CHROMOSOME 17; EDITORIAL; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HAEMOPHILUS INFECTION; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HUMAN; MICROBIOME; MORAXELLA CATARRHALIS; MORAXELLACEAE INFECTION; NONHUMAN; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS PNEUMONIA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; WHEEZING;

BRONCHIOLITIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOPHARYNX; MALE; MICROBIOTA; PNEUMONIA;

EID: 84887857675     PISSN: 1073449X     EISSN: 15354970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1164/rccm.201309-1680ED     Document Type: Editorial

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