Journal article
The September epidemic of asthma hospitalization: School children as disease vectors
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Viral infections are associated with the majority of asthma exacerbations in children and adults. Increased asthma hospitalization rates of children and adults, particularly in the early fall, have been observed to follow school vacations.
OBJECTIVE: We sought to determine the sequence of timing of September asthma hospitalization epidemics in children and adults and to determine whether school-age children are the primary source of …
Authors
Johnston NW; Johnston SL; Norman GR; Dai J; Sears MR
Journal
The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Vol. 117, No. 3, pp. 557–562
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
3 2006
DOI
10.1016/j.jaci.2005.11.034
ISSN
0091-6749