Pre-natal and post-natal exposure to respiratory infection and atopic diseases development: a historical cohort study
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>According to the hygiene hypothesis, infections in early life protect from allergic diseases. However, in earlier studies surrogate measures of infection rather than clinical infections were associated with decreased frequencies of a...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2006-05-01
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| Series: | Respiratory Research |
| Online Access: | http://respiratory-research.com/content/7/1/81 |