TY - JOUR T1 - Respiratory <em>Chlamydophyla pneumoniae</em> resides primarily in the lower airway JF - European Respiratory Journal JO - Eur Respir J SP - 994 LP - 995 DO - 10.1183/09031936.00071711 VL - 38 IS - 4 AU - W.C. Webley AU - D.L. Hahn Y1 - 2011/10/01 UR - http://erj.ersjournals.com/content/38/4/994.2.abstract N2 - To the Editors:We read with interest the article by Wang et al. [1], which explored inflammatory phenotypes in adults and children with acute asthma. Their findings noted a striking paucity of Chlamydophyla pneumoniae organisms, even in patients with acute, neutrophilic asthma, and they concluded that: “The aetiology of neutrophilic asthma is unknown and is not explained by the presence of current active C. pneumoniae infection.” This is in direct contrast to recently published studies that used a similar cohort of patients [2]. A closer look at the results of the study by Wang et al. [1] revealed that while … ER -