Update on the relationship between bacterial infection and asthma / 国际儿科学杂志

ABSTRACT

Asthma pathogenesis seems to be a result of a complex mixture of genetic and environmental influences.There is evidence showing that viral and some atypical bacterial play a role in promoting airway inflammation that could contribute to the onset and clinical course of asthma.However,the role of bacterial in asthma is not completely explained.This article is to explain the relationship between airway bacterial infections and asthma and assessed the mechanism of asthma induced by bacterial infection.