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- Received October 29, 2015
- Accepted November 2, 2015
- Published online January 20, 2016.
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- James D. Chalmers1,33⇑,
- Stefano Aliberti2,33,
- Eva Polverino3,33,
- Montserrat Vendrell4,
- Megan Crichton1,
- Michael Loebinger5,
- Katerina Dimakou6,
- Ian Clifton7,
- Menno van der Eerden8,
- Gernot Rohde9,
- Marlene Murris-Espin10,
- Sarah Masefield11,
- Eleanor Gerada12,
- Michal Shteinberg13,
- Felix Ringshausen14,
- Charles Haworth15,
- Wim Boersma16,
- Jessica Rademacher14,
- Adam T. Hill17,
- Timothy Aksamit18,
- Anne O'Donnell19,
- Lucy Morgan20,
- Branislava Milenkovic21,22,
- Leandro Tramma1,
- Joao Neves23,
- Rosario Menendez24,
- Perluigi Paggiaro25,
- Victor Botnaru26,
- Sabina Skrgat27,
- Robert Wilson5,
- Pieter Goeminne28,
- Anthony De Soyza29,30,
- Tobias Welte14,
- Antoni Torres3,
- J. Stuart Elborn31 and
- Francesco Blasi32
- on behalf of EMBARC.
- 1College of Medicine, University of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, Dundee, UK
- 2Dept of Health Science, University of Milan Bicocca, Clinica Pneumologica, AO San Gerardo, Monza, Italy
- 3Fundaciò Clìnic, IDIBAPS, CIBERES, Hospital Clinic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
- 4Bronchiectasis Group, Girona Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBGI), Dr Trueta University Hospital, Girona, Spain
- 5Host Defence Unit, Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UK
- 65th Pulmonary Department, “Sotiria” Chest Hospital, Athens, Greece
- 7Leeds Centre for Respiratory Medicine, St James's Hospital, Leeds, UK
- 8Dept of Pulmonary Medicine, Erasmus MC Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- 9Dept of Respiratory Medicine, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands
- 10Pôle des Voies Respiratoires, Hôpital de Larrey, CHU de Toulouse, Toulouse, France
- 11European Lung Foundation, Sheffield, UK
- 12Dept of Respiratory Medicine, Mater Dei Hospital, Msida, Malta
- 13Pulmonary Institute, Carmel Medical Center, Haifa, Israel
- 14Dept of Respiratory Medicine, Hannover Medical School, Member of the German Centre for Lung Research, Hannover, Germany
- 15Cambridge Centre for Lung Infection, Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, UK
- 16Dept of Pulmonary Diseases, Medical Centre Alkmaar, Alkmaar, The Netherlands
- 17Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- 18Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, MN, USA
- 19Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA
- 20Dept of Respiratory Medicine, Concord Hospital, Concord Clinical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
- 21Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
- 22Clinic for Pulmonary Diseases, Clinical Center of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia
- 23Medicina Interna, Centro Hospitalar do Porto, Porto, Portugal
- 24Pneumology Service, Universitary and Polytechnic Hospital La Fe, Valencia, Spain
- 25Dept of Surgery, Medicine, Molecular Biology and Critical Care, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
- 26Division of Pneumology, Dept of Internal Medicine, State Medical University of Medicine and Pharmacy “Nicolae Testemitanu”, Chisinau, Republic of Moldova
- 27University Clinic of Respiratory and Allergic Diseases Golnik, Golnik, Slovenia
- 28Dept of Respiratory Medicine, AZ Nikolaas, Sint-Niklaas, Belgium
- 29Institute of Cellular Medicine, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
- 30Bronchiectasis Service, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
- 31School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences, Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast, UK
- 32Respiratory Unit, IRCCS Fondazione Cà Granda Milano, Dept of Pathophysiology and Transplantation, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
- 33These authors contributed equally
- James D. Chalmers, College of Medicine, University of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, Dundee, DD1 9SY, UK. E-mail: jchalmers{at}dundee.ac.uk
Funding
COPD Foundation
EU Innovative Medicines Initiative
iABCAradigm Corporation
European Respiratory Society
CRC 2013-06Bayer HealthCare