Background Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an evolving infectious disease that
dramatically spread all over the world in the early part of 2020. No studies have yet …

Acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (AECOPDs) are episodes of
symptom worsening 1 that have significant adverse consequences for patients. 2 The …

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is the third commonest cause of death
globally, and manifests as a progressive inflammatory lung disease with no curative …

Although influenza is primarily considered a respiratory infection and causes significant
respiratory mortality, evidence suggests that influenza has an additional burden due to …

In chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), exacerbations (ECOPD), characterized
by an acute deterioration in respiratory symptoms, are fundamental events impacting …

This Executive Summary of the Global Strategy for the Diagnosis, Management, and
Prevention of COPD, Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) 2017 …

The central role of the microbiome in critical illness is supported by a half century of
experimental and clinical study. The physiological effects of critical illness and the clinical …

Culture-independent microbiological techniques have shown a previously unappreciated
complexity to the bacterial microbiome of the respiratory tract that forces reconsideration of …

We welcome the report by the SPIROMICS investigators in The Lancet Respiratory
Medicine, 1 repeating our 2010 ECLIPSE analysis2 describing exacerbations in chronic …

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