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Dorianne van Heerden MSc1,2, Samantha Tromp MSc3, R. J. van Neerven PhD1 ,Huub F. J. Savelkoul PhD1, Rob van Binnendijk PhD2 and Gerco den Hartog PhD2,*
1 Cell Biology and Immunology Group, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands
2 Centre for Immunology of Infectious Disease and Vaccination, Institute of Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands
3 Infection and Immunity, University of Amsterdam
* Contact info: gerco.den.hartog@rivm.nl, +31(0)30 274 2056, Antonie van Leeuwenhoeklaan 9, 2721MA Bilthoven, The Netherlands
This project was funded by:
- Dutch Foundation for Asthma Prevention (grant 2018/015 ), The Netherlands
- National Institute of Public Health and the Environment, The Netherlands
The funders were neither involved in the design and execution of the study nor in writing the manuscript
The authors declare no conflict of interest
Key words: asthma, short and long TSLP, IgA, IgG, memory B cells,