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Chronic Disease and Public Health
Margo Honeyman and Leonard Harrison
“The rising incidence of allergic and autoimmune diseases imposes an ever-increasing burden on individuals, populations and economies. Possible mechanisms for this phenomenon, related to changed environmental conditions that impact on immune response genes are discussed. In this chapter, we consider the role of reduced and delayed exposure of infants to infections …”