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ReviewFrontiers in immunology2018

Neonatal Immunity, Respiratory Virus Infections, and the Development of Asthma.

Katherine H Restori, Bharat T Srinivasa, Brian J Ward, Elizabeth D Fixman

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Review in Frontiers in immunology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 44 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
44citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
5.9field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

44 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 63 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Early-life respiratory syncytial virus infection and asthma.European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society · 2026
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  3. The role of dog keeping in the home microbiota and its impact on children's health.Pediatric allergy and immunology : official publication of the European Society of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology · 2026
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  8. Associations of Early Life Ambient PMPediatric pulmonology · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Katherine H RestoriResearch Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montréal, QC, Canada.
Bharat T SrinivasaResearch Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montréal, QC, Canada.
Brian J WardResearch Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montréal, QC, Canada.
Elizabeth D FixmanResearch Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montréal, QC, Canada.
McGill University Health Centre · CA

Funding

CIHR MOP 81254
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Infants are exposed to a wide range of potential pathogens in the first months of life. Although maternal antibodies acquired transplacentally protect full-term neonates from many systemic pathogens, infections at mucosal surfaces still occur with great frequency, causing significant morbidity and mortality. At least part of this elevated risk is attributable to the neonatal immune system that tends to favor T regulatory and Th2 type responses when microbes are first encountered. Early-life infection with respiratory viruses is of particular interest because such exposures can disrupt normal lung development and increase the risk of chronic respiratory conditions, such as asthma. The immunologic mechanisms that underlie neonatal host-virus interactions that contribute to the subsequent development of asthma have not yet been fully defined. The goals of this review are (1) to outline the differences between the neonatal and adult immune systems and (2) to present murine and human data that support the hypothesis that early-life interactions between the immune system and respiratory viruses can create a lung environment conducive to the development of asthma.

Indexed as

ImmunityAge FactorsAnimalsAsthmaHumansImmune SystemInfant, NewbornRespiratory Tract Infectionsasthmainfluenzaneonatal immune systemrespiratory infectionsrespiratory syncytial virusrhinovirus

Identifiers

PMID29915592
PMCPMC5994399
OpenAlexW2804547335

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Registered trials

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