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Current infant vaccination against pertussis in North America and Australia requires three doses of vaccines including diphtheria, tetanus and acellular...
Asthma is more common in childhood than in adulthood and is more correctly thought of as a syndrome than as a discrete condition.
Inhaled allergens are known for their immediate and ongoing effects in the respiratory tract (RT).
The house dust mite allergen Der p 2 is one of the most important indoor allergens associated with allergic disease.
Atopic asthma, which is at its highest prevalence during childhood/young adulthood, represents the main focus of this review.
For 20 years, the hygiene hypothesis has dominated attempts to explain the increasing prevalence of allergic disease. A causal link between maternal innate immu
Airway epithelial cells act through multiple mechanisms to function as an important component of the pulmonary defence strategy that is crucial...
Atopic dermatitis (AD) is a commonly occurring chronic skin disease with high heritability. Apart from filaggrin (FLG), the genes influencing atopic...
There was no overall association between delayed DTaP and food allergy; however, children with delayed DTaP had less eczema and less use of eczema medication
Recent birth cohort studies showed a significant interaction between cat ownership at birth and mutations in FLG on the development of early‐onset atopic dermatitis