The importance of basidiomycetous fungi cultured from the sputum of chronic idiopathic cough:. A study to determine the existence of recognizable clinical patterns to distinguish CIC from non-CIC

Respiratory Medicine

Volumn 103, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1492-1497

  Ogawa, Haruhiko ^a   Fujimura, Masaki ^b   Takeuchi, Yasuo ^c   Makimura, Koichi ^d  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c SAGAMIHARA NATIONAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^d Genome Research Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

Allergic fungal cough (AFC); Basidiomycetous fungi; Chronic idiopathic cough; Fungus associated chronic cough (FACC)

Indexed keywords

CETRIZINE; CLARITHROMYCIN; CLENBUTEROL; CORTICOSTEROID DERIVATIVE; FLUTICASONE PROPIONATE; HISTAMINE H1 RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; PROTON PUMP INHIBITOR; SALBUTAMOL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATOPIC COUGH; BASIDIOMYCETES; BEDTIME DOSAGE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CHRONIC IDIOPATHIC COUGH; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGH PREDOMINANT ASTHMA; COUGH VARIANT ASTHMA; COUGHING; DISEASE DURATION; DRUG MEGADOSE; FEMALE; FUNGUS CULTURE; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINOBRONCHIAL SYNDROME; SPUTUM CULTURE; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASTHMA; BASIDIOMYCOTA; CHRONIC DISEASE; COUGH; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES, FUNGAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOLOGICAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPUTUM; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 69549138081     PISSN: 09546111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rmed.2009.04.016     Document Type: Article

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