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- Title
Pre-natal and post-natal exposure to respiratory infection and atopic diseases development: a historical cohort study.
- Authors
Zutavern, Anne; von Klot, Stephanie; Gehring, Ulrike; Krauss-Etschmann, Susanne; Heinrich, Joachim
- Abstract
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 atopic diseases. Exposure to infection indicating sub-clinical infection rather than clinical infection might protect from atopic diseases.
- Publication
Respiratory research, 2006, Vol 7, p81
- ISSN
1465-993X
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1186/1465-9921-7-81