TY - BOOK AU - Mona Ahmed Kamel Mohamed AU - Amani Ali Ahmed Elkholy , AU - Nadia Ahmed Amin Mostafa , AU - Nihal Mohamed Elrifai , TI - Role of chlamydia pneumoniae and mycoplasma pneumoniae infection in the expression of asthma - related symptoms / PY - 2012/// CY - Cairo : PB - Mona Ahmed Kamel Mohamed , KW - Asthma KW - C. pneumoniae KW - M. pneumoniae N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Pediatrics; Issued also as CD N2 - Asthma is a leading cause of chronic illness in childhood . C. pneumoniae and M. pneumoniae ) have been recently reported as a possible cause of asthma . The aim of this study was to evaluate the role of atypical bacteria such as C. pneumoniae and M. pneumoniae in the expression of asthma symptoms in patients presenting either with the first attack of wkeezing or those presenting during an acure exacerbation of known chronic asthma using PCR examination of the sputum samples UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -