Asthma and lower airway diseaseWeekly monitoring of children with asthma for infections and illness during common cold seasons
Key words
Asthma
children
viral respiratory tract infection
human rhinovirus
allergic sensitization
wheezing
cold symptoms
illness
Abbreviations used
HRV
Human rhinovirus
PEF
Peak expiratory flow
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Supported by National Institutes of Health grant R01 HL080072.
Disclosure of potential conflict of interest: R. F. Lemanske, Jr, has given lectures for Merck and AstraZeneca and has consulted for AstraZeneca, Map Pharmaceuticals, Gray Consulting, Smith Research, Merck Childhood Asthma Network, Novartis, Quintiles/Innovax, RC Horowitz & Co, International Meetings and Science, and Scienomics. J. E. Gern has stock options in EraGen Biosciences and 3V Biosciences, has consulted for 3V Biosciences and Synairgen, and has received research support from AstraZeneca and Merck. The rest of the authors have declared that they have no conflict of interest.
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These two authors contributed equally to this study.
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