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The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between nasopharyngeal pneumococcal colonization in early life and the development of T cell responses.
Information is accumulating which implicates airway inflammation resulting from respiratory viral infections, acting against a background of atopy.
The epidemic increase in the prevalence of allergic disease, which first started in the industrialized countries in the 1960s, may have reached a peak in the...
Concerns about the risk of inducing immune deviation-associated "neonatal tolerance" as described in mice have restricted the widespread adoption...
The aim of this study was to explore associations between severe respiratory infections and atopy in early childhood with persisting wheeze and asthma.
The effect of breast-feeding on the development of allergic disease is uncertain
Bacterial colonisation of the airways is associated with increased risk of childhood asthma
Scabies, a parasitic skin infestation by the burrowing "itch" mite Sarcoptes scabiei, causes significant health problems for children and adults worldwide.
One explanation for the high burden of allergic and autoimmune diseases in industrialized countries is inappropriate immune development under modern...
This methodology has significant potential to identify covert interactions between inflammatory pathways triggered by vaccination, and as such may be a...