Bacterial distribution in the lungs of children with protracted bacterial bronchitis.

Bacterial distribution in the lungs of children with protracted bacterial bronchitis.

OBJECTIVES:Flexible bronchoscopy with bronchoalveolar lavage (FB-BAL) is increasingly used for the microbiological confirmation of protracted bacterial bronchitis (PBB) in children with a chronic wet cough. At our centre, when performing FB-BAL for microbiological diagnosis we sample 6 lobes (includ...

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Main Authors: Ravi Narang, Kelly Bakewell, Jane Peach, Sadie Clayton, Martin Samuels, John Alexander, Warren Lenney, Francis J Gilchrist
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4178164?pdf=render

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