Low gut microbiota diversity in early infancy precedes asthma at school age

Clinical and Experimental Allergy

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 842-850

  Abrahamsson, T R ^a   Jakobsson, H E ^b   Andersson, A F ^c   Bjorksten B ^b,d   Engstrand, L ^b,c   Jenmalm, M C ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^d ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Allergic rhinoconjunctivitis; Asthma; Birth; Children; Diversity; Hygiene hypothesis; Microbiota; Molecular microbiology

Indexed keywords

DNA 16S; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; RNA 16S;

ALLERGIC DISEASE; ALLERGIC RHINOCONJUNCTIVITIS; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ECZEMA; FECES; GENETIC CODE; HUMAN; INFANCY; INTESTINE FLORA; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; PRICK TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYROSEQUENCING; RHINOCONJUNCTIVITIS; AGE; BIODIVERSITY; CASE CONTROL STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HYPERSENSITIVITY; INFANT; MALE; METAGENOME; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROFLORA; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RISK FACTOR;

AGE FACTORS; ASTHMA; BIODIVERSITY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; FECES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; METAGENOME; MICROBIOTA; RISK FACTORS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S;

EID: 84901238189     PISSN: 09547894     EISSN: 13652222     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cea.12253     Document Type: Article

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