No direct association between asthma and the microbiome based on currently available techniques

Medicine (United States)

Volumn 93, Issue 27, 2014, Pages

  Yayan, Josef ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALLERGIC ASTHMA; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; BRONCHIAL ASPIRATION PROCEDURE; BRONCHOSCOPY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; LUNG LAVAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROBIAL COLONIZATION; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOME; MICROSCOPY; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKIN ALLERGY; TRACHEA MUCUS; AGED; COMPARATIVE STUDY; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROFLORA; MIDDLE AGED; MUCUS; SPUTUM; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASTHMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROBIOTA; MIDDLE AGED; MUCUS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPUTUM;

EID: 84919330259     PISSN: 00257974     EISSN: 15365964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MD.0000000000000199     Document Type: Article

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