Background: We previously showed an association between neonatal bacterial airway
colonization and increased risk of asthma in the first 5 years of life, suggesting an airway�…

Background We previously showed an association between neonatal bacterial airway
colonisation and increased risk of persistent wheeze/asthma until age 5 years. Here, we�…

Extract Asthma is the most common chronic respiratory disease among children, with
approximately 10–15% of children affected in the world [1]. Epidemiological research has�…

Background Early life respiratory tract infections have been linked to the development of
asthma, but studies on the burden and subtypes of common infections in asthma�…

Rationale: The frequency of pneumonia and bronchiolitis exhibits considerable variation in
otherwise healthy children, and suspected risk factors explain only a minor proportion of the�…

Culture techniques have associated colonization with pathogenic bacteria in the airways of
neonates with later risk of childhood asthma, whereas more recent studies utilizing�…

Background Asthma is a highly prevalent chronic lung disease that commonly originates in
early childhood. Colonization of neonatal airways with the pathogenic bacterial strains�…

Background Pathological features of the airway in young children with severe recurrent
wheeze suggest an association between bacterial colonization and the initiating events of�…

Objective: Pathogenic airway bacteria colonizing the neonatal airway increase the risk of
childhood asthma, but little is known about the determinants of the establishment and�…

RePub, Erasmus University Repository: Early-life Infections, Bacteria and Childhood Asthma
Development: The Generation R Study university website Wealth Erasmus Research Institute of�…