Protracted bacterial bronchitis: The last decade and the road ahead

Pediatric Pulmonology

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 225-242

  Chang, Anne B ^a,b,c   Upham, John W ^d   Masters, I Brent ^b,c   Redding, Gregory R ^e   Gibson, Peter G ^f,g   Marchant, Julie M ^b,c   Grimwood, Keith ^b,h  

^a MENZIES SCHOOL OF HEALTH RESEARCH   (Australia)

^b LADY CILENTO CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^g JOHN HUNTER HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^h GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

airways; bacterial bronchitis; Haemophilus influenzae; infection; inflammation; mechanism

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEPHALOSPORIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; MACROLIDE;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BRONCHIECTASIS; BRONCHITIS; BRONCHOSCOPY; BRONCHUS SECRETION; CHRONIC COUGH; COUGHING; DRUG RESPONSE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; INNATE IMMUNITY; LUNG LAVAGE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MORBIDITY; NEUTROPHIL CHEMOTAXIS; NONHUMAN; PATIENT MONITORING; PATIENT REFERRAL; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTRACTED BACTERIAL BRONCHITIS; RECURRENT INFECTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPUTUM; TRACHEOBRONCHOMALACIA; ADOLESCENT; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CHILD; COMPLICATION; COUGH; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECURRENT DISEASE;

ADOLESCENT; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BRONCHIECTASIS; BRONCHITIS; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE; BRONCHOSCOPY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COUGH; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMANS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECURRENCE;

EID: 84958238250     PISSN: 87556863     EISSN: 10990496     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ppul.23351     Document Type: Article

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