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Author response: Infection-exposure in infancy is associated with reduced allergy-related disease in later childhood in a Ugandan cohort

Year: 2021

Type: peer-review

Abstract: In a Ugandan birth cohort, early childhood infection-exposure, notably to malaria, helminths, and diarrhoea, is associated with lower prevalence of atopy and allergy-related diseases in later childhood.

DOI: 10.7554/elife.66022.sa2

Authors: Lawrence Lubyayi, Harriet Mpairwe, Gyaviira Nkurunungi, Swaib A Lule, Angela Nalwoga, Emily L Webb, Jonathan Levin, Alison M Elliott

Institutions: University of the Witwatersrand, MRC/UVRI & LSHTM Uganda Research Unit, Medical Research Council, Uganda Virus Research Institute, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, University College London

Language: English

Topic: Asthma and respiratory diseases

Subfield: Physiology

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: gold

OpenAlex ID: W3203931452

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