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SUBMITTER: Thibaut HJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7169185 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Thibaut Hendrik Jan HJ Lacroix Céline C De Palma Armando M AM Franco David D Decramer Mark M Neyts Johan J
Reviews in medical virology 20150921 1
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a life-threatening lung illness characterized by persistent and progressive airflow limitation. Exacerbations of COPD contribute to the severity of this pathology and accelerate disease progression. To date, pharmacological treatment of both stable COPD patients and patients experiencing exacerbations is mainly symptomatic with bronchodilators and steroids as the mainstay of therapy. Bacteria trigger such exacerbations in a number of cases; hence, ...[more]