Safety of hookworm infection in individuals with measurable airway responsiveness: a randomized placebo-controlled feasibility study

Background Epidemiological evidence suggests that hookworm infection protects against asthma. However, for ethical and safety reasons, before testing this hypothesis in a clinical trial in asthma it is necessary to establish whether experimental hookworm infection might exacerbate airway responsiveness during larval lung migration.

• Publication year

  2009

• Venue

  Clinical and Experimental Allergy

• Publication date

  2009-07-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1111/j.1365-2222.2009.03187.xPMID 19400893PMCID 2728895
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