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Increased incidence of invasive bacterial disease in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease compared to the general population-a population based cohort study

BACKGROUND: Innate defence mechanisms of the airways are impaired in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), predisposing patients to lower respiratory tract infections, but less is known about the association with other infections. In this population-based cohort study, we investigated the as...

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Autores principales: Inghammar, Malin, Engström, Gunnar, Ljungberg, Bengt, Löfdahl, Claes-Göran, Roth, Adam, Egesten, Arne
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3976148/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24661335
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-14-163