Host-pathogen interactions during COPD exacerbations: Moving on from microbiology by numbers?

American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 176, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 323-325

  Wilkinson, Tom M A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE EXACERBATION; EDITORIAL; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORAXELLA CATARRHALIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFLAMMATION; VIRAL RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION;

BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; SPUTUM;

EID: 34547955209     PISSN: 1073449X     EISSN: 15354970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1164/rccm.200705-784ED     Document Type: Editorial

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