TY - JOUR T1 - Methacholine and macrolides JF - European Respiratory Journal JO - Eur Respir J SP - 709 LP - 710 DO - 10.1183/09031936.04.10057104 VL - 24 IS - 4 AU - G.P. Currie AU - D.K.C. Lee Y1 - 2004/10/01 UR - http://erj.ersjournals.com/content/24/4/709.2.abstract N2 - To the Editor: The paper by Kostadima et al. 1 provides a valuable insight into the effects of clarithromycin upon nonspecific airway hyperresponsiveness (AHR) to methacholine in asthmatics. It is important to point out that AHR to methacholine is only very loosely related to the degree of underlying inflammation, whereas the use of an indirect … ER -