Antibiotics for asthma attacks: masking uncertainty
The role for antibiotics in acute asthma has been historically overestimated [1]. From a mechanistic point of view, multiplex PCR testing and conventional microbiological techniques show that >50–80% of events are associated with viral infections, and less than 20% associated with evidence of bac...
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Format: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
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European Respiratory Society
2021
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