Tuesday, 6 December 2011: 08:35 - 09:00
Costa Maya (Cancún Center)
Homer Boushey, MD
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Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Learning Objectives:
1. To be able to summarize evidence of the existence of a bronchial microbiome and of differences in miicrobial community composition associated with asthma.
1. To be able to summarize evidence of the existence of a bronchial microbiome and of differences in miicrobial community composition associated with asthma.
2. To summarize major findings of epidemiologic studies suggesting a relationship between gastrointestinal microbiome and risk of development of allergies and asthma.