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Volume 2011 (2011), Article ID 493624, 5 pages
doi:10.5402/2011/493624
Clinical Study

Predicting the Long-Term Course of Asthma in Wheezing Infants Is Still a Challenge

Flore Amat,1 Amandine Vial,1 Bruno Pereira,2 Isabelle Petit,3 André Labbe,4 and Jocelyne Just1

1Asthma and Allergies Centre, Armand-Trousseau Children Hospital, University Pierre and Marie Curie-Paris 6, Paris, France
2Biostatistics Unit, University Hospital of Clermont-Ferrand, Clermont-Ferrand, France
3Center of Clinical Investigations, Faculty of Medicine, University of Clermont-Ferrand, Clermont-Ferrand, France
4Airborne Allergies in Infants Unit, Department of Pediatrics, CHU-Estaing/University Teaching Hospital of Clermont-Ferrand, Clermont-Ferrand, France

Received 8 May 2011; Accepted 5 June 2011

Academic Editors: D. C. Cara and B. Xu

Copyright © 2011 Flore Amat et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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