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Smoking, season, and detection of chlamydia pneumoniae DNA in clinically stable COPD patients
BACKGROUND: The prevalence and role of Chlamydia pneumoniae in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) remain unclear. METHODS: Peripheral blood mononuclear cells were obtained from 100 outpatients with smoking-related, clinically stable COPD, and induced sputum was obtained in 62 patients. RES...
Autores principales: | Smieja, Marek, Leigh, Richard, Petrich, Astrid, Chong, Sylvia, Kamada, Dennis, Hargreave, Frederick E, Goldsmith, Charles H, Chernesky, Max, Mahony, James B |
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Formato: | Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2002
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC117240/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12098361 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-2-12 |
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