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Internal Bacterial Imbalance Leads to Asthma
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/8825992e-f0ad-48d8-9845-4e06fa9b3e93/91CD135D-D750-43A4-AF23-9359E64DA422/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/07/internal-bacter.html" href="http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/07/internal-bacter.html" style="font-size: 11px;">blog.wired.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/07/internal-bacter.html"><H1 id="articlehed">Internal Bacterial Imbalance Leads to Asthma</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/07/internal-bacter.html"><DIV class="date_time"> <SPAN><SPAN class="c cs" id="contributor">By Brandon Keim</SPAN> <A href="http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/07/mailto:brandon@earthlab.net"><IMG alt="Email" src="http://blog.wired.com/images/icon_email.gif" /></A></SPAN><SPAN>July 15, 2008 | 12:36:15 PM</SPAN>Categories: <A href="http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/bacteria/index.html" linkindex="42">Bacteria</A>, <A href="http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/disease/index.html" linkindex="43">Disease</A> </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/07/internal-bacter.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/blog.wired.com/img/3BB578A5-047E-45B2-A2B5-E5E41E68DCE2" alt="Inhaler" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/07/internal-bacter.html"><DIV>Rising asthma rates may be partly explained by bacterial imbalances in our guts. </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/07/internal-bacter.html"><DIV>In a study published yesterday in the <EM>Journal of Infectious Diseases</EM>, researchers showed that <EM>Heliobacter pylori</EM>, an intestinal microbe that co-evolved with humans, appears to protect children from asthma. </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/07/internal-bacter.html"><DIV>Asthma rates have nearly <A href="http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/ss5608a1.htm" linkindex="45">doubled</A> in the United States since 1970, and are <A href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/02/18/1076780009648.html?from=storyrhs" linkindex="46">swelling</A> in the developing world. Underlying the rise is a constellation of causes -- and one of these may be the loss of <EM><EM>H. pylori</EM></EM>, a vanishing member of the rich bacterial ecosystems in our stomachs.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/07/internal-bacter.html"><DIV>Nearly universal at the advent of modern antibiotics, it's now present in just one-fifth of young Americans. 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