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SUBMITTER: Mansbach JM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3375381 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
The Pediatric infectious disease journal 20120701 7
We reexamined the finding of an inverse relationship between values of nasopharyngeal lactate dehydrogenase, a marker of the innate immune response, and bronchiolitis severity. In a prospective, multicenter study of 258 children, we found in a multivariable model that higher nasopharyngeal lactate dehydrogenase values in young children with bronchiolitis were independently associated with a decreased risk of hospitalization. ...[more]