Bacterial infection in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: A study of stable and exacerbated outpatients using the protected specimen brush

American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 152, Issue 4 I, 1995, Pages 1316-1320

  Monso E ^a   Ruiz, J ^a   Rosell, A ^a   Manterola, J ^a   Fiz, J ^a   Morera, J ^a   Ausina, V ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI GERMANS TRIAS I PUJOL   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL FLORA; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMAN; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORAXELLA CATARRHALIS; OUTPATIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLING; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIA;

BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; BRONCHI; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG DISEASES, OBSTRUCTIVE; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; PREVALENCE; REFERENCE VALUES; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; SPECIMEN HANDLING;

EID: 0029085092     PISSN: 1073449X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1164/ajrccm.152.4.7551388     Document Type: Article

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