Indoor air pollution and tobacco smoke exposure: impact on nasopharyngeal bacterial carriage in mothers and infants in an African birth cohort study

Aneesa Vanker, Polite M. Nduru, Whitney Barnett, Felix S. Dube, Peter D. Sly, Robert P. Gie, Mark P. Nicol, Heather J. Zar

Source: ERJ Open Res, 5 (1) 00052-2018; 10.1183/23120541.00052-2018
Journal Issue: February
Disease area: Paediatric lung diseases, Respiratory infections

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