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Bacterial Asthma

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There is considerable controversy, no general agreement and inadequate evidence for definitive conclusions regarding the role of bacterial allergy in asthma and even the role of infection per se. From the therapeutic point of view the main object of establishing bacterial allergy has been the use of vaccines of mixed respiratory tract and potentially pathogenic common commensal bacteria for immunotherapy. This approach is hallowed more by time, with its long usage, than by acceptably proven findings and will be dealt with first. Theoretical possibilities of bacterial allergy in asthma will then be discussed together with the problems which need to be considered and require resolution for results of practical value to be obtained.

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Pepys, J. (1987). Bacterial Asthma. In: Michel, F.B., Bousquet, J., Godard, P. (eds) Highlights in Asthmology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-70316-4_8

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