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Agora

• Research letters

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    Small airway dysfunction in well-treated never-smoking HIV-infected individuals

    Andreas Ronit, Inger Hee Mathiesen, Marco Gelpi, Thomas Benfield, Jan Gerstoft, Tanja Pressler, Anders Christiansen, Jens Lundgren, Jørgen Vestbo, Susanne Dam Nielsen

    European Respiratory Journal 49 (3) 1602186; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.02186-2016 Published 2 March 2017
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    Diversity of nontuberculous mycobacteria in eastern and southern China: a cross-sectional study

    Yu Pang, Yaoju Tan, Jin Chen, Yanming Li, Huiwen Zheng, Yuanyuan Song, Yanlin Zhao

    European Respiratory Journal 49 (3) 1601429; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.01429-2016 Published 8 March 2017
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    Impaired exercise ventilatory efficiency in smokers with low transfer factor but normal spirometry

    Gisele Walter Barbosa, J. Alberto Neder, Karina Utida, Denis E. O'Donnell, Paulo de Tarso Müller

    European Respiratory Journal 49 (3) 1602511; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.02511-2016 Published 8 March 2017
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    A pilot randomised clinical trial of mepolizumab in COPD with eosinophilic bronchitis

    Angira Dasgupta, Melanie Kjarsgaard, Dante Capaldi, Katherine Radford, Fernando Aleman, Colm Boylan, Leonard C. Altman, Thomas N. Wight, Grace Parraga, Paul M. O'Byrne, Parameswaran Nair

    European Respiratory Journal 49 (3) 1602486; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.02486-2016 Published 15 March 2017
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    Exercise-induced changes in QT interval are smaller in COPD patients and have no impact on mortality

    Afroditi K. Boutou, Russell Franks, Divya Mohan, Lilian Mantziari, Tom Wong, Nicholas S. Hopkinson, Michael I. Polkey

    European Respiratory Journal 49 (3) 1602394; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.02394-2016 Published 15 March 2017
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    Compassionate use of bedaquiline in highly drug-resistant tuberculosis patients in Mumbai, India

    Zarir F. Udwadia, Shashank Ganatra, Jai B. Mullerpattan

    European Respiratory Journal 49 (3) 1601699; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.01699-2016 Published 22 March 2017
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    Rapid emergence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis bedaquiline resistance: lessons to avoid repeating past errors

    Nicolas Veziris, Christine Bernard, Lorenzo Guglielmetti, Damien Le Du, Dhiba Marigot-Outtandy, Marie Jaspard, Eric Caumes, Isabelle Lerat, Christophe Rioux, Yazdan Yazdanpanah, Angelica Tiotiu, Nadine Lemaitre, Florence Brossier, Vincent Jarlier, Jerome Robert, Wladimir Sougakoff, Alexandra Aubry

    European Respiratory Journal 49 (3) 1601719; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.01719-2016 Published 22 March 2017
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    Bedaquiline as a potential agent in the treatment of M. intracellulare and M. avium infections

    Silvan Vesenbeckh, Nicolas Schönfeld, David Krieger, Gudrun Bettermann, Torsten Thomas Bauer, Holger Rüssmann, Harald Mauch

    European Respiratory Journal 49 (3) 1601969; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.01969-2016 Published 22 March 2017
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    Safety and tolerability of clarithromycin in the treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis

    Anne-Fleur Louise Van der Paardt, Onno W. Akkerman, Gina Gualano, Fabrizio Palmieri, Lina Davies Forsman, Alena Aleksa, Simon Tiberi, Wiel C.M. de Lange, Mathieu S. Bolhuis, Alena Skrahina, Dick van Soolingen, Jos G.W. Kosterink, Giovanni Battista Migliori, Tjip S. van der Werf, Jan-Willem C. Alffenaar

    European Respiratory Journal 49 (3) 1601612; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.01612-2016 Published 22 March 2017
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    Eligibility for shorter treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in the European Union

    Marieke J. van der Werf, Vahur Hollo, Csaba Ködmön, Masoud Dara, Mike Catchpole

    European Respiratory Journal 49 (3) 1601992; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.01992-2016 Published 22 March 2017
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    Time to sputum culture conversion and treatment outcome of patients with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis: a prospective cohort study from urban China

    Peng Lu, Qiao Liu, Leonardo Martinez, Haitao Yang, Wei Lu, Xiaoyan Ding, Limei Zhu

    European Respiratory Journal 49 (3) 1601558; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.01558-2016 Published 22 March 2017
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    Impact of interferon-γ release assay on the latent tuberculosis cascade of care: a population-based study

    David Z. Roth, Lisa A. Ronald, Daphne Ling, Leslie Y. Chiang, Victoria J. Cook, Muhammad G. Morshed, James C. Johnston

    European Respiratory Journal 49 (3) 1601546; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.01546-2016 Published 22 March 2017
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    Pharmacokinetics of moxifloxacin and linezolid during and after pregnancy in a patient with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis

    Els Van Kampenhout, Mathieu S. Bolhuis, Jan-Willem C. Alffenaar, Laurien M.A. Oswald, Huib A.M. Kerstjens, Wiel C.M. de Lange, Tjip S. van der Werf, Onno W. Akkerman

    European Respiratory Journal 49 (3) 1601724; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.01724-2016 Published 22 March 2017
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    Extent of transmission captured by contact tracing in a tuberculosis high endemic setting

    Karen Bjorn-Mortensen, Troels Lillebaek, Anders Koch, Bolette Soborg, Karin Ladefoged, Hans Christian Florian Sørensen, Thomas Andreas Kohl, Stefan Niemann, Aase Bengaard Andersen

    European Respiratory Journal 49 (3) 1601851; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.01851-2016 Published 22 March 2017
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    Can tuberculosis patients in resource-constrained settings afford chest radiography?

    Debora Pedrazzoli, Marek Lalli, Delia Boccia, Rein Houben, Katharina Kranzer

    European Respiratory Journal 49 (3) 1601877; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.01877-2016 Published 22 March 2017
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    Tuberculosis on the rise in southern Mozambique (1997–2012)

    Alberto L. García-Basteiro, Rafaela Miranda Ribeiro, Joe Brew, Charfudin Sacoor, Salomé Valencia, Helder Bulo, Frank Cobelens, Eusebio Macete

    European Respiratory Journal 49 (3) 1601683; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.01683-2016 Published 22 March 2017
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    Video-observed treatment for tuberculosis patients in Belarus: findings from the first programmatic experience

    Heorhi Sinkou, Henadz Hurevich, Valiantsin Rusovich, Liudmila Zhylevich, Dennis Falzon, Pierpaolo de Colombani, Andrei Dadu, Masoud Dara, Alistair Story, Alena Skrahina

    European Respiratory Journal 49 (3) 1602049; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.02049-2016 Published 22 March 2017
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    QuantiFERON-TB^® Gold Plus as a potential tuberculosis treatment monitoring tool

    Arisu Kamada, Masaru Amishima

    European Respiratory Journal 49 (3) 1601976; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.01976-2016 Published 22 March 2017
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    Pulmonary complications and survival after autologous stem cell transplantation: predictive role of pulmonary function and pneumotoxic medications

    Simone Scarlata, Ombretta Annibali, Simona Santangelo, Valeria Tomarchio, Silvia Ferraro, Daniele Armiento, Alessandra Scardocci, William Arcese, Raffaele Antonelli Incalzi, Giuseppe Avvisati

    European Respiratory Journal 49 (3) 1601902; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.01902-2016 Published 29 March 2017

• Correspondence

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    Incident opioid drug use and adverse respiratory outcomes among older adults with COPD

    Magnus Ekström, Sabrina Bajwah, Miriam J. Johnson

    European Respiratory Journal 49 (3) 1602311; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.02311-2016 Published 8 March 2017
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    Incident opioid use is associated with risk of respiratory harm in non-palliative COPD

    Nicholas T. Vozoris, Denis E. O'Donnell, Chaim Bell, Sudeep S. Gill, Paula A. Rochon

    European Respiratory Journal 49 (3) 1602529; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.02529-2016 Published 8 March 2017
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    IFN-α/IFN-λ responses to respiratory viruses in paediatric asthma

    Simonetta Baraldo, Alberto Papi, Marina Saetta, Marco Contoli

    European Respiratory Journal 49 (3) 1602489; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.02489-2016 Published 29 March 2017
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    IFN-α/IFN-λ responses to respiratory viruses in paediatric asthma

    Annika Bergauer, Nina Sopel, Bettina Kroß, Tytti Vuorinen, Paraskevi Xepapadaki, Scott T. Weiss, Ashley Blau, Himanshu Sharma, Cornelia Kraus, Rebekka Springel, Manfred Rauh, Susanne Mittler, Anna Graser, Theodor Zimmermann, Volker O. Melichar, Alexander Kiefer, Marek L. Kowalski, Anna Sobanska, Tuomas Jartti, Heikki Lukkarinen, Nikolaos G. Papadopoulos, Susetta Finotto

    European Respiratory Journal 49 (3) 1700006; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.00006-2017 Published 29 March 2017
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    Rhinovirus species/genotypes and interferon-λ: subtypes, receptor and polymorphisms – missing pieces of the puzzle of childhood asthma?

    Carolina Scagnolari, Fabio Midulla, Raffaella Nenna, Paola Papoff, Guido Antonelli, Alessandra Pierangeli

    European Respiratory Journal 49 (3) 1700060; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.00060-2017 Published 29 March 2017
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    Rhinovirus species/genotypes and interferon-λ: subtypes, receptor and polymorphisms – missing pieces of the puzzle of childhood asthma?

    Annika Bergauer, Nina Sopel, Bettina Kroß, Tytti Vuorinen, Paraskevi Xepapadaki, Scott T. Weiss, Ashley Blau, Himanshu Sharma, Cornelia Kraus, Rebekka Springel, Manfred Rauh, Susanne Mittler, Anna Graser, Theodor Zimmermann, Volker O. Melichar, Alexander Kiefer, Marek L. Kowalski, Anna Sobanska, Tuomas Jartti, Heikki Lukkarinen, Nikolaos G. Papadopoulos, Susetta Finotto

    European Respiratory Journal 49 (3) 1700265; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.00265-2017 Published 29 March 2017