Geographic variation in the aetiology, epidemiology and microbiology of bronchiectasis

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Chandrasekaran, Ravishankar, Mac Aogáin, Micheál, Chalmers, James D., Elborn, Stuart J., Chotirmall, Sanjay Haresh
• مؤلفون آخرون: Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (LKCMedicine)
• التنسيق: مقال
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: 2018
• الموضوعات: Bronchiectasis; Microbiome
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/84699; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/45116
• المؤسسة: Nanyang Technological University

Bronchiectasis is a disease associated with chronic progressive and irreversible dilatation of the bronchi and is characterised by chronic infection and associated inflammation. The prevalence of bronchiectasis is age-related and there is some geographical variation in incidence, prevalence and clin...