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Article: UT Southwestern study finds asthma link.(University of Texas (Dallas) Southwestern Medical Center (Dallas, Texas))(Mycoplasma pneumonia infection)(Brief Article)
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- Immunotherapy Weekly
- Article date:
- April 10, 2002
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2002 APR 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Long-term infection with a bacteria that causes pneumonia could lead to chronic asthma, UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas researchers report in the February 2002 issue of Infection and Immunity.
Most people recover completely from pneumonia. Doctors have known for a long time, however, that Mycoplasma pneumoniae bacteria can linger in humans months after the acute infection has subsided. Scientists have hypothesized that chronic respiratory infection caused by the bacteria played a role in asthma since laboratory cultures find more of the bacteria present in asthmatics than in people without asthma. Doctors also ...