The plight of the 'asthmatic patient' in South Africa - a subgroup analysis of the SABINA III study

I S Kalla¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Pulmonology and Department of Critical Care Medicine, Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.

Editorial

I S Kalla. Afr J Thorac Crit Care Med. 2022.

. 2022 Dec 19;28(4):10.7196/AJTCCM.2022.v28i4.298.

doi: 10.7196/AJTCCM.2022.v28i4.298. eCollection 2022.

I S Kalla¹

¹ Department of Pulmonology and Department of Critical Care Medicine, Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.

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