Evidence of an Infectious Asthma Phenotype: Chlamydia Driven Allergy and Airway Hyperresponsiveness in Pediatric Asthma
Asthma is the most common chronic respiratory disease affecting young children and adults all over the world. An estimated 34.1 million Americans have reported asthma in their lifetime and the disease costs ~US $56 billion dollars to treat each year. Current treatment is based on a paradigm of asthm...
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ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst
2013
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| Online Access: | https://scholarworks.umass.edu/open_access_dissertations/700 https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1707&context=open_access_dissertations |