Safety of hookworm infection in individuals with measurable airway responsiveness: a randomized placebo-controlled feasibility study

BACKGROUND: Epidemiological evidence suggests that hookworm infection protects against asthma. However, for ethical and safety reasons, before testing this hypothesis in a clinical trial in asthma it is necessary to establish whether experimental hookworm infection might exacerbate airway responsive...

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Autores principales: Feary, J, Venn, A, Brown, A, Hooi, D, Falcone, F H, Mortimer, K, Pritchard, D I, Britton, J
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2009
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Original Articles:Clinical Allergy
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2728895/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19400893
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2222.2009.03187.x

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2728895/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19400893
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2222.2009.03187.x

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