The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
Volume 117, Issue 3 , Pages 557-562 , March 2006

The September epidemic of asthma hospitalization: School children as disease vectors

  • Neil W. Johnston, MSc

      Affiliations

    • From the Firestone Institute for Respiratory Health, St Joseph's Healthcare and McMaster University, Hamilton
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Neil W. Johnston, MSc, Firestone Institute for Respiratory Health, St Joseph's Healthcare, 50 Charlton Ave East, Hamilton, Ontario L8N 4A6, Canada.
    • ,
  • Sebastian L. Johnston, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Respiratory Medicine, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London
    • ,
  • Geoff R. Norman, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton
    • ,
  • Jennifer Dai, MSc

      Affiliations

    • From the Firestone Institute for Respiratory Health, St Joseph's Healthcare and McMaster University, Hamilton
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  • Malcolm R. Sears, MB, ChB

      Affiliations

    • From the Firestone Institute for Respiratory Health, St Joseph's Healthcare and McMaster University, Hamilton

Received 6 October 2005 ,Revised 21 November 2005 ,Accepted 30 November 2005.

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 Disclosure of potential conflict of interest: M. Sears has received grants from Merck Frosst Canada and AstraZeneca and is on the speakers bureau for Merck Frosst Canada, AstraZeneca, and Altana Pharma. The rest of the authors have no conflict of interest to disclose.Supported in part by the Firestone Institute for Respiratory Health and by British Lung Foundation/Severin Wunderman Family Foundation Lung Research Programme grant number P00/2.

PII: S0091-6749(05)02592-3

doi: 10.1016/j.jaci.2005.11.034

The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
Volume 117, Issue 3 , Pages 557-562 , March 2006

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