Maternal antibiotic use and childhood asthma: The missing link?

The Lancet Respiratory Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 597-598

  Weiss, Scott T ^a   Litonjua, Augusto A ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CALCIFEDIOL; VITAMIN D; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ASTHMA; BACTERIAL INFECTION; DENMARK; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG USE; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MICROBIOME; NOTE; NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCY; PERINATAL PERIOD; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DRUG EXPOSURE; PRENATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERPERIUM; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; RISK REDUCTION; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY; FEMALE; MOTHER; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ASTHMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MOTHERS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS;

EID: 84905443561     PISSN: 22132600     EISSN: 22132619     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S2213-2600(14)70122-5     Document Type: Note

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