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Nature Medicine  4, 500 - 501 (1998)
doi:10.1038/nm0598supp-500

Alchemy for asthma

William O.C.M. Cookson & Miriam F. Moffatt

Asthma Genetics Group, Nuffield, Department of Clinical Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford OX3 9DU, U.K. email: wocc@radius.jr2.ox.ac.uk

Techniques that induce allergen tolerance in asthma patients are not yet fully effective or free of side effects.

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