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Long-term effects of pneumococcal colonization during early childhood wheezing
- Source :
- Pediatrics International. 58:831-835
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- Wiley, 2016.
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Abstract
- BACKGROUND Bacterial colonization during wheezing in early childhood has been associated with short-term relapses of wheezing, but no study has addressed the effects of Streptococcus pneumoniae colonization on long-term outcome of wheezing. The aim of the present study was therefore to evaluate whether pneumococcal (PNC) colonization during the first wheezing episode in early childhood is a determinant of asthma, atopy or lung function in the long term. METHODS In 1981-82 83 infants were hospitalized for first wheezing episode at
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
0301 basic medicine
Spirometry
Pediatrics
medicine.medical_specialty
Time Factors
Adolescent
030106 microbiology
medicine.disease_cause
Pneumococcal Infections
Atopy
Young Adult
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Nasopharyngeal aspirate
Nasopharynx
Pneumococcal colonization
Streptococcus pneumoniae
medicine
Humans
Colonization
Prospective Studies
030212 general & internal medicine
Early childhood
Child
Respiratory Sounds
Asthma
medicine.diagnostic_test
business.industry
Infant
medicine.disease
Child, Preschool
Carrier State
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
Female
business
Follow-Up Studies
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 13288067
- Volume :
- 58
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Pediatrics International
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....e8e0620d3e4aba1a11d3b3871617bf96