Chest
Volume 147, Issue 1, January 2015, Pages 46-55
Original Research: COPDAssociation Between Pathogens Detected Using Quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction With Airway Inflammation in COPD at Stable State and Exacerbations
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ABBREVIATIONS
CFU
colony-forming units
PPM
potentially pathogenic microorganism
qPCR
quantitative polymerase chain reaction
SGRQ
St. George's Respiratory Questionnaire
TNF
tumor necrosis factor
VAS
visual analog scale
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Dr Barker and Ms Haldar are joint first authors and Drs Brightling and Bafadhel are joint senior authors.
FUNDING/SUPPORT: Funding was obtained from the Medical Research Council (UK), a Wellcome Senior Fellowship (C. E. B.), and a National Institute for Health Research Post-Doctoral Fellowship (M. B.), and the research was performed in laboratories partly funded by the European Regional Development Fund [Grant ERDF 05567].
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