Association between nasal and nasopharyngeal bacterial colonization in early life and eczema phenotypes.
Chen HuLiesbeth DuijtsEvelien R van MeelKirsten I M LoomanJessica C Kiefte-de JongLuba M PardoDirkJan HijnenSuzanne G M A PasmansJohan C de JongsteHenriette A MollTamar NijstenPublished in: Clinical and experimental allergy : journal of the British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology (2021)
Early life Staphylococcus aureus nasal carriage, but not Staphylococcus pneumoniae, Moraxella catarrhalis and Haemophilus influenza nasopharyngeal carriage, was associated with early transient and persistent eczema. Staphylococcus aureus nasal carriage and eczema were mostly cross-sectionally associated, and not longitudinally, making a causal relationship in either direction unlikely.