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... which are white blood cells that fight infection. In some respiratory patients, neutrophils persist in the airways and cause poor ... and paradigm-shifting observations have helped change the way asthma is clinically defined and treated. New and novel targeted ... to the understanding of asthma, and has application to other airway diseases such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and ...
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Current therapies prevent only ~40% of asthma exacerbations. These figures are in the context of clinical ... infections are the major precipitants of exacerbations of asthma: Respiratory virus infections are detected in at least 80% of acute ... the greatest single precipitant of acute exacerbation of both diseases. For this reason we believe it important to study RV infections ...
