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Original articles

• Open Access

  Variations in the prevalence of childhood asthma and wheeze in MeDALL cohorts in Europe

  Eleonora P. Uphoff, Philippa K. Bird, Joseph Maria Antó, Mikel Basterrechea, Andrea von Berg, Anna Bergström, Jean Bousquet, Leda Chatzi, Maria Pia Fantini, Amparo Ferrero, Ulrike Gehring, Davide Gori, Joachim Heinrich, Thomas Keil, Inger Kull, Susanne Lau, Dieter Maier, Isabelle Momas, Silvia Narduzzi, Daniela Porta, Fanny Ranciere, Theano Roumeliotaki, Tamara Schikowski, Henriette A. Smit, Marie Standl, Jordi Sunyer, John Wright

  ERJ Open Res 3: 00150-2016; DOI: 10.1183/23120541.00150-2016 Published 3 July 2017
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  Lung microbiome and host immune tone in subjects with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis treated with inhaled interferon-γ

  Jing Wang, Melissa Lesko, Michelle H. Badri, Bianca C. Kapoor, Benjamin G. Wu, Yonghua Li, Gerald C. Smaldone, Richard Bonneau, Zachary D. Kurtz, Rany Condos, Leopoldo N. Segal

  ERJ Open Res 3: 00008-2017; DOI: 10.1183/23120541.00008-2017 Published 12 July 2017
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  Lung adenocarcinoma patients of young age have lower EGFR mutation rate and poorer efficacy of EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitors

  Shang-Gin Wu, Yih-Leong Chang, Chong-Jen Yu, Pan-Chyr Yang, Jin-Yuan Shih

  ERJ Open Res 3: 00092-2016; DOI: 10.1183/23120541.00092-2016 Published 12 July 2017
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  Chronic airflow obstruction after successful treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis

  Anthony L. Byrne, Ben J. Marais, Carole D. Mitnick, Frances L. Garden, Leonid Lecca, Carmen Contreras, Yaninna Yauri, Fanny Garcia, Guy B. Marks

  ERJ Open Res 3: 00026-2017; DOI: 10.1183/23120541.00026-2017 Published 12 July 2017
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  Information and communication technology use in asthmatic patients: a cross-sectional study in Latin America

  Juan Calderón, Annia Cherrez, Germán Darío Ramón, Orlando Lopez Jove, Alan Baptist, Edgar Matos, Blanca Morfín Maciel, Erick Calero, Mario Sanchez-Borges, Sofia Cherrez, Daniel Simancas-Racines, Ivan Cherrez Ojeda

  ERJ Open Res 3: 00005-2017; DOI: 10.1183/23120541.00005-2017 Published 12 July 2017
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  Apples and pears? A comparison of two sources of national lung cancer audit data in England

  Aamir Khakwani, Ruth H. Jack, Sally Vernon, Rosie Dickinson, Natasha Wood, Susan Harden, Paul Beckett, Ian Woolhouse, Richard B. Hubbard

  ERJ Open Res 3: 00003-2017; DOI: 10.1183/23120541.00003-2017 Published 21 July 2017
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  Arterial stiffness in symptomatic smokers with normal lung function

  Nicola Scichilone, Antonino Tuttolomondo, Carlo Maida, Alida Benfante, Jessica Peluso, Anna Cirrincione, Valerio Vassallo, Antonio Pinto

  ERJ Open Res 3: 00037-2017; DOI: 10.1183/23120541.00037-2017 Published 21 July 2017
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  Validity and reliability of grade scoring in the diagnosis of exercise-induced laryngeal obstruction

  Emil Schwarz Walsted, James H. Hull, Jeppe Hvedstrup, Robert Christiaan Maat, Vibeke Backer

  ERJ Open Res 3: 00070-2017; DOI: 10.1183/23120541.00070-2017 Published 28 July 2017
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  Patient experience of lung volume reduction procedures for emphysema: a qualitative service improvement project

  Sara Buttery, Adam Lewis, Inger Oey, Joanne Hargrave, David Waller, Michael Steiner, Pallav L. Shah, Samuel V. Kemp, Simon Jordan, Nicholas S. Hopkinson

  ERJ Open Res 3: 00031-2017; DOI: 10.1183/23120541.00031-2017 Published 10 August 2017
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  Outcomes of immunosuppressive therapy in chronic hypersensitivity pneumonitis

  Ayodeji Adegunsoye, Justin M. Oldham, Evans R. Fernández Pérez, Mark Hamblin, Nina Patel, Mitchell Tener, Deepa Bhanot, Lacey Robinson, Sam Bullick, Lena Chen, Scully Hsu, Matthew Churpek, Donald Hedeker, Steven Montner, Jonathan H. Chung, Aliya N. Husain, Imre Noth, Mary E. Strek, Rekha Vij

  ERJ Open Res 3: 00016-2017; DOI: 10.1183/23120541.00016-2017 Published 17 August 2017
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  Stratification of eosinophilic asthma patients treated with reslizumab and GINA Step 4 or 5 therapy

  Guy Brusselle, Janice Canvin, Sivan Weiss, Shawn X. Sun, Roland Buhl

  ERJ Open Res 3: 00004-2017; DOI: 10.1183/23120541.00004-2017 Published 17 August 2017
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  Asbestos-related diseases in mineworkers: a clinicopathological study

  Ntombizodwa Ndlovu, David Rees, Jill Murray, Naseema Vorajee, Guy Richards, Jim teWaterNaude

  ERJ Open Res 3: 00022-2017; DOI: 10.1183/23120541.00022-2017 Published 25 August 2017
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  Protected sampling is preferable in bronchoscopic studies of the airway microbiome

  Rune Grønseth, Christine Drengenes, Harald G. Wiker, Solveig Tangedal, Yaxin Xue, Gunnar Reksten Husebø, Øistein Svanes, Sverre Lehmann, Marit Aardal, Tuyen Hoang, Tharmini Kalananthan, Einar Marius Hjellestad Martinsen, Elise Orvedal Leiten, Marianne Aanerud, Eli Nordeide, Ingvild Haaland, Inge Jonassen, Per Bakke, Tomas Eagan

  ERJ Open Res 3: 00019-2017; DOI: 10.1183/23120541.00019-2017 Published 30 August 2017
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  Importance of serial changes in biomarkers in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis

  Akihiko Sokai, Kiminobu Tanizawa, Tomohiro Handa, Kumiko Kanatani, Takeshi Kubo, Kohei Ikezoe, Yoshinari Nakatsuka, Shinsaku Tokuda, Toru Oga, Toyohiro Hirai, Sonoko Nagai, Kazuo Chin, Michiaki Mishima

  ERJ Open Res 3: 00019-2016; DOI: 10.1183/23120541.00019-2016 Published 30 August 2017
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  Carbamylation/citrullination of IgG Fc in bronchiectasis, established RA with bronchiectasis and RA smokers: a potential risk factor for disease

  David Hutchinson, Alexander Clarke, Kate Heesom, Daniel Murphy, Paul Eggleton

  ERJ Open Res 3: 00018-2017; DOI: 10.1183/23120541.00018-2017 Published 19 September 2017