The exhaled biomarker puzzle: Bacteria play their card in the exhaled nitric oxide-exhaled breath condensate nitrite game

Thorax

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 179-180

  Horvath, I ^a  

^a NATIONAL KORANYI INSTITUTE OF PULMONOLOGY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIASTHMATIC AGENT; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CORTICOSTEROID; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRITE;

ASTHMA; BACTERIUM; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BREATH ANALYSIS; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DISEASE CONTROL; EDITORIAL; EXHALATION; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELAPSE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SPIROMETRY; SYMPTOM; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL; NOTE; RECURRENT DISEASE;

ASTHMA; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; HUMANS; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRITES; RECURRENCE;

EID: 14944344719     PISSN: 00406376     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/thx.2004.034603     Document Type: Editorial

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