Blood and sputum eosinophils in COPD; relationship with bacterial load

BACKGROUND: Sputum and blood eosinophil counts predict corticosteroid effects in COPD patients. Bacterial infection causes increased airway neutrophilic inflammation. The relationship of eosinophil counts with airway bacterial load in COPD patients is uncertain. We tested the hypothesis that bacteri...

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Autores principales: Kolsum, Umme, Donaldson, Gavin C., Singh, Richa, Barker, Bethan L., Gupta, Vandana, George, Leena, Webb, Adam J., Thurston, Sarah, Brookes, Anthony J, McHugh, Timothy D., Wedzicha, Jadwiga A., Brightling, Christopher E., Singh, Dave
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5422866/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28482840
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12931-017-0570-5

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5422866/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28482840
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12931-017-0570-5

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