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Bacterial Distribution in the Lungs of Children with Protracted Bacterial Bronchitis

OBJECTIVES: Flexible bronchoscopy with bronchoalveolar lavage (FB-BAL) is increasingly used for the microbiological confirmation of protracted bacterial bronchitis (PBB) in children with a chronic wet cough. At our centre, when performing FB-BAL for microbiological diagnosis we sample 6 lobes (inclu...

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Autores principales: Narang, Ravi, Bakewell, Kelly, Peach, Jane, Clayton, Sadie, Samuels, Martin, Alexander, John, Lenney, Warren, Gilchrist, Francis J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4178164/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25259619
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0108523