Association between asthma and invasive pneumococcal disease risk: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Abstract Purpose Asthma has been shown to be related to an increased risk of invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD), although the results remain inconclusive. Therefore, we performed a meta-analysis to determine whether asthma increases the risk of IPD. This meta-analysis was performed to validate and...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2020-11-01
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| Series: | Allergy, Asthma & Clinical Immunology |
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| Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13223-020-00492-4 |