Relationship between bacterial colonisation and the frequency, character, and severity of COPD exacerbations

Thorax

Volumn 57, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 759-764

  Patel, I S ^a   Seemungal, T A R ^a   Wilks, M ^b   Lloyd Owen, S J ^a   Donaldson, G C ^a   Wedzicha, J A ^a  

^a ST BARTHOLOMEW S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL LONDON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; INTERLEUKIN 8; STEROID;

AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HAEMOPHILUS PARAINFLUENZAE; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT; MALE; MORAXELLA CATARRHALIS; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PEAK EXPIRATORY FLOW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PUS; SPUTUM ANALYSIS; SPUTUM EXAMINATION; SPUTUM SMEAR; STANDARD; STATISTICS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIA;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTERIA; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; SMOKING; SPUTUM; VITAL CAPACITY;

EID: 0036727140     PISSN: 00406376     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/thorax.57.9.759     Document Type: Article

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