Rural and urban exposures shape early life immune development in South African children with atopic dermatitis and nonallergic children.
Nonhlanhla LunjaniAnoop T AmbikanCarol HlelaMichael Eliad LevinAvumile MankahlaJeannette I Heldstab-KastTadech BoonpiyathadGe TanCan AltunbulakliClive GrayKari Christine NadeauUjjwal NeogiMübeccel AkdisCorina M BersetPublished in: Allergy (2023)
This study highlights the importance of the exposome on immune development in early life and identifies potentially protective (e.g., animal) exposures and potentially detrimental (e.g., pollutant) exposures that impact key immunological pathways.