TY - JOUR T1 - Macrolide therapy in asthma: limited treatment, long-term improvement JF - European Respiratory Journal JO - Eur Respir J SP - 1239 LP - 1239 DO - 10.1183/09031936.00000209 VL - 33 IS - 5 AU - D. L. Hahn Y1 - 2009/05/01 UR - http://erj.ersjournals.com/content/33/5/1239.abstract N2 - To the Editors: As part of their interesting review of long-term macrolide therapy in chronic inflammatory airway diseases, Crosbie and Woodhead 1 cite eight randomised double-blind placebo-controlled trials of macrolide therapy in asthma. Most were small, and all were short-term (none >12 weeks). Some positive effects were noted; mechanisms proffered included both anti-inflammatory and antimicrobial (including … ER -