Airway inflammation and bronchial microbial patterns in patients with stable chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

European Respiratory Journal

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1015-1022

  Soler, N ^a   Ewig, S ^b   Torres, A ^a   Filella, X ^c   Gonzalez, J ^c   Zaubet, A ^c  

^a HOSPITAL CLÍNIC   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BONN   (Germany)

^c Servei Pneumologia i Alleria R ^*

Author keywords

(COPD); Bronchoalveolar lavage fluid chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; Colonization; Inflammation

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ADULT; AGED; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BRONCHOSCOPY; BRONCHUS; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE DIFFERENTIAL COUNT; LUNG LAVAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORAXELLA CATARRHALIS; NEUTROPHILIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEUS MIRABILIS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFLAMMATION; SMOKING; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STENOTROPHOMONAS MALTOPHILIA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0032717535     PISSN: 09031936     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1183/09031936.99.14510159     Document Type: Article

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