The mechanism or mechanisms driving atopic asthma initiation: The infant respiratory microbiome moves to center stage

Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Volumn 136, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 15-22

  Holt, Patrick G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Asthma; Atopy; Infancy; Microbiome; Nasopharyngeal; Viral infections

Indexed keywords

AEROALLERGEN; ALLERGEN; CYTOKINE; FC RECEPTOR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E ANTIBODY; INTERFERON; RNA 16S; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLERGIC ASTHMA; CELL POPULATION; DENDRITIC CELL; HUMAN; IMMUNOSURVEILLANCE; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; MYELOID DENDRITIC CELL; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; PLASMACYTOID DENDRITIC CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSITIZATION; VIRAL RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; ANIMAL; ASTHMA; CHILD; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IMMEDIATE TYPE HYPERSENSITIVITY; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; IMMUNOLOGY; INFANT; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROFLORA; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; ASTHMA; CHILD; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY, IMMEDIATE; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; INFANT; MICROBIOTA; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM;

EID: 84937010978     PISSN: 00916749     EISSN: 10976825     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaci.2015.05.011     Document Type: Review

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