Respiratory Medicine
Volume 100, Issue 8 , Pages 1384-1391 , August 2006

Asthma and allergy in alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency

  • Edward Eden

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +12125237341; fax: +12125238426.
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  • Charlie Strange

      Affiliations

    • Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Allergy and Asthma, Department of Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA
    • ,
  • Brian Holladay

      Affiliations

    • Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Allergy and Asthma, Department of Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA
    • ,
  • Lianqi Xie

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biostatistics, Bioinformatics and Epidemiology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA

Received 12 August 2005 ,Accepted 22 November 2005.

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PII: S0954-6111(05)00507-X

doi: 10.1016/j.rmed.2005.11.017

Respiratory Medicine
Volume 100, Issue 8 , Pages 1384-1391 , August 2006

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