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920. A Sharp Fall in Antibiotic Use in Infants Is Correlated With a Population-Wide Reduction in Asthma Incidence for Children Under 5

BACKGROUND: Antibiotic use in infants <1 is associated with increased relative risk (~1.5) for childhood asthma in cohort studies. This may be mediated by removal from the infant microbiome of organisms shown to protect against asthma, a hypothesis supported by experiment. We launched this study...

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Autores principales: Patrick, David, Mamun, Abdullah, Rasali, Drona, Rose, Caren, Marra, Fawziah
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6252788/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofy209.061