| Title | Bronchiolitis and asthma: possible common pathogenetic pathways. | ||
| Author | McIntosh, K | ||
| Journal | J Allergy Clin Immunol | Publication Year/Month | 1976-Jun |
| PMID | 180072 | PMCID | PMC7133166 |
A discussion of possible mechanism for virus-induced wheezing in normal and asthmatic children is presented. Presently attractive theories for immune injury in viral bronchiolitis include those which depend on pathology induced by types 1, 3, and 4 of Gell and Coombs. The continuum of viral bronchiolitis with virus-induced wheezing in young children who are labeled "asthmatic" argues for some common mechanism of bronchiolar obstruction.