Asthma and Infections

A valuable resource for pulmonologists, allergists, clinical immunologists, and infectious disease specialists, Asthma Infections covers the full range of respiratory infections and explores techniques for detecting pathogens involved in asthma. This comprehensive text informs the reader about currently used and emerging treatments and therapies used to eliminate the spread of infections.

Topics in this stand-alone guide include:

• the interaction between allergen and infection and how this interaction causes chronic asthma
• the role of microbes in acute and chronic asthma
• how infection changes innate and adaptive immunity
• how antibiotic and anti-inflammatory agents affect bacteria and asthma
• how both antimicrobial and non-microbial therapy alters both the pathogen and asthma
• the relationship between acute and chronic asthma with infection
• the Hygiene Hypothesis of asthma and allergic-infection interactions