Article
[Viral infection and asthma: immunologic mechanisms].
Allergologia et immunopathologia - 1 Jan 2000
Lorente F, Laffond E, Moreno E, Dávila I
Abstract excerpt
The role of viral respiratory infections in lactating infants and other children continues to generate controversy. The debate concerns the difference, or the apparent differences, in the natural history of wheezing. Viral infections frequently provoke wheezing episodes in non-asthmatic small children but in the majority of these the wheezing disappears without the child subsequently developing asthma. In some...
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