Outcomes in protracted bacterial bronchitis (PBB): a five year prospective cohort study

Conclusion: Children with PBB should be followed-up as a significant proportion will eventually develop bronchiectasis and/or an asthma phenotype. Identifying clinical and/or lab-based markers (e.g. molecular signatures) at the index PBB episode would be useful for predicting future risk of disease.

Source: European Respiratory Journal - November 19, 2018 Category: Respiratory Medicine Authors: Ruffles, T., Marchant, J., Masters, I., Buntain, H., Busch, G., Upham, J., Wurzel, D., Yerkovich, S., Gibson, P., Baines, K., Jodie, S., Pizzutto, S., Hodge, S., Hodge, G., Chang, A. Tags: Paediatric respiratory infection and immun. Source Type: research