Blood eosinophil counts, airway infections and inhaled antibiotic treatment in bronchiectasis

Ming-Xin Shi^{1

2}, Shu-Jun Guo^{1

2}, Jun-Qing Yue^{1

3

2}, Xiao-Xian Zhang^{1

2}, Zhen-Feng He¹, Hui-Min Li¹, Xiao-Fen Zhang¹, Zhao-Ming Chen¹, Lai-Jian Cen¹, Cui-Xia Pan¹, Rui-di Tang¹, Sheng-Zhu Lin¹, Jia-Hui He¹, Dan-Yuan Xu⁴, Zi-Wei Chen⁵, Meng-Zhang He^{4

6}, Yong-Hua Gao^{7

6}, Wei-Jie Guan^{8

3

6}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, National Clinical Research Center for Respiratory Disease, National Center for Respiratory Medicine, Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Health, The First Affiliated Hospital, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China.
² M-X. Shi, S-J. Guo, J-Q. Yue and X-X. Zhang contributed equally and were co-first authors.
³ Guangzhou National Laboratory, Guangzhou, China.
⁴ Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China.
⁵ Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Guangzhou Twelfth People's Hospital, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China.
⁶ W-J. Guan, Y-H. Gao and M-Z. He contributed equally to this article as lead authors and supervised the work.
⁷ Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, School of Medicine, Tongji University, Shanghai, China.
⁸ Department of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, National Clinical Research Center for Respiratory Disease, National Center for Respiratory Medicine, Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Health, The First Affiliated Hospital, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China battery203@163.com.

Ming-Xin Shi et al. Eur Respir J. 2025.

. 2025 May 22;65(5):2500518.

doi: 10.1183/13993003.00518-2025. Print 2025 May.

¹ Department of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, National Clinical Research Center for Respiratory Disease, National Center for Respiratory Medicine, Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Health, The First Affiliated Hospital, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China.
² M-X. Shi, S-J. Guo, J-Q. Yue and X-X. Zhang contributed equally and were co-first authors.
³ Guangzhou National Laboratory, Guangzhou, China.
⁴ Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China.
⁵ Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Guangzhou Twelfth People's Hospital, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China.
⁶ W-J. Guan, Y-H. Gao and M-Z. He contributed equally to this article as lead authors and supervised the work.
⁷ Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, School of Medicine, Tongji University, Shanghai, China.
⁸ Department of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, National Clinical Research Center for Respiratory Disease, National Center for Respiratory Medicine, Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Health, The First Affiliated Hospital, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China battery203@163.com.

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflict of interest: The authors have no potential conflicts of interest to disclose.