Chronic bronchial infection in COPD. Is there an infective phenotype?

Respiratory Medicine

Volumn 107, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 10-22

  Matkovic, Zinka ^a,b   Miravitlles, Marc ^a  

^a HOSPITAL CLÍNIC   (Spain)

^b University of Zagreb School of Medicine   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Bacteria; Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; Colonisation; Exacerbation; Infection; Microorganisms; Phenotypes

Indexed keywords

CATHEPSIN G; ELASTASE; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; LIPOOLIGOSACCHARIDE; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 1; MYELOBLASTIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ALPHA HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCUS; AUTOIMMUNITY; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BRONCHIECTASIS; BRONCHITIS; CANDIDA; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHLAMYDIAL PNEUMONIA; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; CORYNEBACTERIUM; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE EXACERBATION; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENTEROCOCCUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HAEMOPHILUS HAEMOLYTICUS; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HAEMOPHILUS PARAINFLUENZAE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; LUNG FUNCTION; MICROORGANISM; MORAXELLA CATARRHALIS; MORTALITY; NEISSERIA; NONHUMAN; PATHOGEN LOAD; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEUS MIRABILIS; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; QUALITY OF LIFE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFLAMMATION; REVIEW; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; SPUTUM ANALYSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TRACHEOBRONCHIAL TOILET;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BRONCHIECTASIS; BRONCHITIS; HUMANS; LUNG; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE;

EID: 84871368046     PISSN: 09546111     EISSN: 15323064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rmed.2012.10.024     Document Type: Review

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