Different location, same results?

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Editorial

Kyle R Brownback. Respirology. 2017 Aug.

. 2017 Aug;22(6):1057-1058.

doi: 10.1111/resp.13061. Epub 2017 Apr 25.

¹ Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, USA.

Abstract

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/resp.13049/abstract

Keywords: bronchoscopy; immunosuppressed; influenza; pneumonia; respiratory infections.

Nasopharyngeal viral PCR in immunosuppressed patients and its association with virus detection in bronchoalveolar lavage by PCR.
Lachant DJ, Croft DP, McGrane Minton H, Prasad P, Kottmann RM. Lachant DJ, et al. Respirology. 2017 Aug;22(6):1205-1211. doi: 10.1111/resp.13049. Epub 2017 Apr 5. Respirology. 2017. PMID: 28382762 Free PMC article.

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