Indoor air pollution and tobacco smoke exposure: impact on nasopharyngeal bacterial carriage in mothers and infants in an African birth cohort study

Indoor air pollution (IAP) or environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) exposure may influence nasopharyngeal carriage of bacterial species and development of lower respiratory tract infection (LRTI). The aim of this study was to longitudinally investigate the impact of antenatal or postnatal IAP/ETS exposu...

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Main Authors: Aneesa Vanker, Polite M. Nduru, Whitney Barnett, Felix S. Dube, Peter D. Sly, Robert P. Gie, Mark P. Nicol, Heather J. Zar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: European Respiratory Society 2019-02-01
Series:ERJ Open Research
Online Access:http://openres.ersjournals.com/content/5/1/00052-2018.full

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