Are persons with asthma at increased risk of pneumococcal infections, and can we prevent them?

J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2008 Oct;122(4):724-725. doi: 10.1016/j.jaci.2008.09.008.

Author

Tina V Hartert¹

Affiliation

¹ Division of Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Institute of Medicine and Public Health, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tenn. Electronic address: tina.hartert@Vanderbilt.Edu.

PMID: 19014764
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaci.2008.09.008

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Publication types

Comment
Editorial

MeSH terms

Adult
Aged
Asthma / complications
Asthma / epidemiology*
Databases, Factual
Female
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Minnesota / epidemiology
Pneumonia, Pneumococcal / epidemiology*
Pneumonia, Pneumococcal / etiology
Retrospective Studies
Risk Factors