Asthma and infections
By: edited by Richard J Martin, E. Rand Sutherland.
Contributors: Martin, Richard J. 1946-; Sutherland, E. Rand.
Series: Lung biology in health and disease -- 238; Lung biology in health and disease -- v. 238.
Publisher: Informa Healthcare
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 201
ISBN-13: 9781420092998
Subjects: Respiratory infections; Asthma; Respiratory Tract Infections -- diagnosis; Asthma -- microbiology; Hypersensitivity -- immunology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Overview of the infection, allergy, and asthma relationship / Dawn C. Newcomb and R. Stokes Peebles, Jr.; title: Laboratory diagnosis of respiratory infections / Ronald J. Harbeck; title: Hygiene hypothesis for allergy and asthma / Andrew H. Liu; title: Asthma exacerbation induced by virus and bacteria / Kaharu Sumino and Michael J. Walter; title: Interaction between allergen and bacteria in chronic asthma / Richard J. Martin; title: Viral-allergy interactions / Jonathan D.R. Macintyre, Annemarie Sykes, and Sebastian L. Johnston; title: Viral respiratory infections in infancy and chronic asthma / James E. Gern; title: Bacterial respiratory infections and asthma / E. Rand Sutherland; title: Increased susceptibility to viral infection at the origins of asthma / Fernando D. Martinez; title: Pulmonary surfactant, innate immunity, and asthma / Mari Numata and Dennis R. Voelker; title: Host defense responses / Hong W. Chu and Fabienne Gally; title: Antimicrobial and anti-inflammatory effects of antibiotics : a role in asthma therapy / Druhan Howell and Monica Kraft.