Blood and sputum eosinophils in COPD; relationship with bacterial load

BACKGROUND: Sputum and blood eosinophil counts predict corticosteroid effects in COPD patients. Bacterial infection causes increased airway neutrophilic inflammation. The relationship of eosinophil counts with airway bacterial load in COPD patients is uncertain. We tested the hypothesis that bacteri...

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Pubblicato in:Respir Res
Autori principali: Kolsum, Umme, Donaldson, Gavin C., Singh, Richa, Barker, Bethan L., Gupta, Vandana, George, Leena, Webb, Adam J., Thurston, Sarah, Brookes, Anthony J, McHugh, Timothy D., Wedzicha, Jadwiga A., Brightling, Christopher E., Singh, Dave
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Lingua:Inglês
Pubblicazione: BioMed Central 2017
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Accesso online:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5422866/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28482840
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12931-017-0570-5
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