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HIV infected adults do not have an excess of colonising bacteria in their large airways

BACKGROUND: HIV infected adults have increased susceptibility to bacterial pneumonia but the underlying immune defect is poorly understood. We tested the hypothesis that HIV infection might be associated with increased bacterial colonisation of distal airways by nasal flora, which would then predisp...

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Autores principales: Gordon, Stephen B, Musaya, Janelisa, Wilson, Lorna, Phiri, Amos, Zijlstra, Eduard E, Molyneux, Malcolm E
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2003
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC317307/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14672539
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-3-29