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To the Editor: For their study of asthma and neonatal airway colonization, Bisgaard et al. (Oct. 11 issue)¹ selected a birth cohort of asymptomatic infants at high risk for the development of asthma by virtue of their mothers' history of asthma. In the accompanying editorial, von Mutius² suggests that delayed type 1 helper T cell (Th1) immune maturation is associated with impaired clearance of certain bacteria. It is notable that 61% of the infants were colonized with Staphylococcus aureus, but no information is available about rates of co-colonization or other bacteria that may confound the results, such as Mycoplasma . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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