Bacteria in sputum of stable severe asthma and increased airway wall thickness

BACKGROUND: Patients with chronic asthma have thicker intrapulmonary airways measured on high resolution computed tomography (HRCT). We determined whether the presence of lower airway bacteria was associated with increased airway wall thickness. METHODS: In 56 patients with stable severe asthma, spu...

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Autores principales: Zhang, Qingling, Illing, Rowland, Hui, Christopher K, Downey, Kate, Carr, Denis, Stearn, Martin, Alshafi, Khalid, Menzies-Gow, Andrew, Zhong, Nanshan, Fan Chung, Kian
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3351013/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22513083
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1465-9921-13-35

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