Asthma and infections
- Title
- Asthma and infections / edited by Richard J Martin, E. Rand Sutherland.
- Published by
- New York : Informa Healthcare, c2010.
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- Description
- xvi, 201 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Series statement
- Lung biology in health and disease ; 238
- Uniform title
- Lung biology in health and disease ; v. 238.
- Subject
- Contents
- Introduction / Claude Lenfant -- 1. Overview of the Infection, Allergy, and Asthma Relationship / Dawn C. Newcomb and R. Stokes Peebles, Jr. -- 2. Laboratory Diagnosis of Respiratory Infections / Ronald J. Harbeck -- 3. Hygiene Hypothesis for Allergy and Asthma / Andrew H. Liu -- 4. Asthma Exacerbation Induced by Virus and Bacteria / Kaharu Sumino and Michael J. Walter -- 5. Interaction Between Allergen and Bacteria in Chronic Asthma / Richard J. Martin -- 6. Viral-Allergy Interactions / Jonathan D. R. Macintyre, Annemarie Sykes and Sebastian L. Johnston -- 7. Viral Respiratory Infections in Infancy and Chronic Asthma / James E. Gern -- 8. Bacterial Respiratory Infections and Asthma / E. Rand Sutherland -- 9. Increased Susceptibility to Viral Infection at the Origins of Asthma / Fernando D. Martinez -- 10. Pulmonary Surfactant, Innate Immunity, and Asthma / Mari Numata and Dennis R. Voelker -- 11. Host Defense Responses / Hong W. Chu and Fabienne Gally -- 12. Antimicrobial and Anti-inflammatory Effects of Antibiotics: A Role in Asthma Therapy / Druhan Howell and Monica Kraft.
- Owning institution
- Columbia University Libraries
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.