Defining the role of the human intestinal microbiota in childhood asthma and atopic disease
Asthma is a chronic inflammatory atopic disease of the airways affecting one in ten children in Westernized countries. The microflora hypothesis of allergic disease proposes the intestinal microbiota as a potential mechanistic link connecting environmental exposures to changes in the developing immu...
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University of British Columbia
2017
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2429/60117 |