“…The present study is in agreement with other studies that have failed to show evidence of bacterial infection in asthmatic patients (Glynn, 1959;Morgan and Wood, 1965;Burns andMay, 1967, 1968;Burns, 1968a and b;BTTA, 1975;Davies et al, 1976). In fact, in these patients the frequency of precipitating antibody to the bacterial antigens used in this study was no different to that seen in a group of control subjects (Clarke, 1975).…”