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Allan B. Becker
Researcher at University of Manitoba
Publications - 325
Citations - 17901
Allan B. Becker is an academic researcher from University of Manitoba. The author has contributed to research in topics: Asthma & Population. The author has an hindex of 64, co-authored 315 publications receiving 15116 citations. Previous affiliations of Allan B. Becker include Alberta Children's Hospital & Canadian Institutes of Health Research.
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Early infancy microbial and metabolic alterations affect risk of childhood asthma
Marie-Claire Arrieta,Leah T. Stiemsma,Pedro A. Dimitriu,Lisa Thorson,Shannon L. Russell,Sophie Yurist-Doutsch,Boris Kuzeljevic,Matthew J. Gold,Heidi Britton,Diana L. Lefebvre,Padmaja Subbarao,Piush J. Mandhane,Allan B. Becker,Kelly M. McNagny,Malcolm R. Sears,Tobias R. Kollmann,William W. Mohn,Stuart E. Turvey,B. Brett Finlay +18 more
TL;DR: It is reported in a longitudinal human study that infants at risk of asthma have transient gut microbial dysbiosis during the first 100 days of life, and certain bacterial genera were decreased in these children, suggesting a potential causative role of the loss of these microbes.
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Gut microbiota of healthy Canadian infants: profiles by mode of delivery and infant diet at 4 months
Meghan B. Azad,Theodore Konya,Heather Maughan,David S. Guttman,Catherine J. Field,Radha Chari,Malcolm R. Sears,Allan B. Becker,James A. Scott,Anita L. Kozyrskyj +9 more
TL;DR: The gut microbiota of healthy Canadian infants is characterized and the effects of delivery mode and infant diet as determinants of this essential microbial community in early life are described and advance the understanding of the gut microbiota in healthy infants.
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A summary of the new GINA strategy: a roadmap to asthma control.
Helen K. Reddel,Eric D. Bateman,Allan B. Becker,Louis-Philippe Boulet,Alvaro A. Cruz,Jeffrey M. Drazen,Tari Haahtela,Suzanne S. Hurd,Hiromasa Inoue,Johan C. de Jongste,Robert F. Lemanske,Mark L Levy,Paul M. O'Byrne,Pierluigi Paggiaro,Søren Pedersen,Emilio Pizzichini,Manuel Soto-Quiroz,Stanley J. Szefler,Gary W.K. Wong,J. Mark FitzGerald +19 more
TL;DR: The changes include a revised asthma definition, tools for assessing symptom control and risk factors for adverse outcomes, and updated strategies for adaptation and implementation of GINA recommendations.
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Montelukast for Chronic Asthma in 6- to 14-Year-Old Children A Randomized, Double-blind Trial
Barbara Knorr,Jonathan Matz,Jonathan A. Bernstein,Ha Nguyen,Beth C. Seidenberg,Theodore F. Reiss,Allan B. Becker +6 more
TL;DR: Montelukast improves morning FEV1 in 6- to 14-year-old children with chronic asthma, and this is the first study of its kind to study children younger than 12 years with asthma using a leukotriene receptor antagonist.
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Impact of maternal intrapartum antibiotics, method of birth and breastfeeding on gut microbiota during the first year of life: a prospective cohort study.
Meghan B. Azad,Meghan B. Azad,Tedd Konya,R. R. Persaud,David S. Guttman,Radha Chari,Catherine J. Field,Sears,Piush J. Mandhane,Stuart E. Turvey,Padmaja Subbarao,Allan B. Becker,James A. Scott,Anita L. Kozyrskyj +13 more
TL;DR: The impact of maternal intrapartum antibiotic prophylaxis (IAP) on infant gut microbiota, and to explore whether breastfeeding modifies these effects, are determined.