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Childhood infections and asthma: at the crossroads of the hygiene and Barker hypotheses
The hygiene hypothesis states that childhood asthma develops as a result of decreased exposure to infectious agents during infancy and early childhood. This results in the persistence of the neonatal T helper lymphocyte 2 immunophenotype, thereby predisposing the child to atopic disease. While multi...
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BioMed Central
2001
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC64800/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11737930 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/rr81 |