There is poor agreement on definitions of different phenotypes of preschool wheezing disorders.
The present Task Force proposes to use the terms episodic (viral) wheeze to describe …

Childhood asthma is common and its prevalence is increasing in most countries of the world.
Large‐scale studies indicate that approximately one‐third of children with asthma have …

Since we first recognized the regular presence of gaseous hydrogen cyanide, HCN, in the
headspace of plate cultures of the bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa, PA, derived from …

AIMS To compare the use of health care resources and associated costs between infants
with chronic lung disease (CLD) who had or had not an admission with a proven respiratory …

Hypothesis: Hydrogen cyanide (HCN) is emitted by Pseudomonas aeruginosa (PA) in vitro.
We hypothesized that exhaled HCN could be measured using Selected Ion Flow Tube Mass …

Pseudomonas aeruginosa (PA) is associated with a distinctive smell produced by a
combination of volatile compounds (VCs). Selected ion flow tube mass spectrometry (SIFT‐MS) …

Background: In prematurely born infants with chronic lung disease (CLD), RSV hospitalisation
is associated with increased health service utilisation and costs in the first two years after …

Background: The relationship between asthma severity and atopy is complex. Many studies
have failed to show significant relationships between clinical severity or lung function and …

Thirty two preschool children were entered into a double blind, placebo controlled study
using intermittent budesonide to treat viral induced wheeze. Active treatment was either 800 …

The published results of breath isoprene studies, to date largely involving adults, are briefly
reviewed with special attention given to the work done on this topic during the last 10 years …