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Original articles

• Relationship between bacterial colonisation and the frequency, character, and severity of COPD exacerbations (1 September, 2002)

  I S Patel, T A R Seemungal, M Wilks, S J Lloyd-Owen, G C Donaldson, J A Wedzicha
• β-Actin and GAPDH housekeeping gene expression in asthmatic airways is variable and not suitable for normalising mRNA levels (1 September, 2002)

  E M Glare, M Divjak, M J Bailey, E H Walters
• Reduction in exhaled nitric oxide immediately after methacholine challenge in asthmatic children (1 September, 2002)

  G L Piacentini, A Bodini, D G Peroni, M Miraglia Del Giudice, S Costella, A L Boner
• Effects of inhaled tumour necrosis factor alpha in subjects with mild asthma (1 September, 2002)

  P S Thomas, G Heywood
• Increased blood carboxyhaemoglobin concentrations in inflammatory pulmonary diseases (1 September, 2002)

  H Yasuda, M Yamaya, M Yanai, T Ohrui, H Sasaki
• Clinical evaluation of the effect of anti-allergic mattress covers in patients with moderate to severe asthma and house dust mite allergy: a randomised double blind placebo controlled study (1 September, 2002)

  L H M Rijssenbeek-Nouwens, A J Oosting, M S de Bruin-Weller, I Bregman, J G R de Monchy, D S Postma
• Early asthma control and maintenance with eformoterol following reduction of inhaled corticosteroid dose (1 September, 2002)

  D Price, D Dutchman, A Mawson, B Bodalia, S Duggan, P Todd
• Effects of fluticasone propionate on inflammatory cells in COPD: an ultrastructural examination of endobronchial biopsy tissue (1 September, 2002)

  M J Gizycki, K L Hattotuwa, N Barnes, P K Jeffery
• A meta-analysis of the effect of Bacille Calmette Guérin vaccination on tuberculin skin test measurements (1 September, 2002)

  L Wang, M O Turner, R K Elwood, M Schulzer, J M FitzGerald
• A national study of clinical and laboratory factors affecting the survival of patients with multiple drug resistant tuberculosis in the UK (1 September, 2002)

  F Drobniewski, I Eltringham, C Graham, J G Magee, E G Smith, B Watt
• Management of solitary pulmonary nodules: how do thoracic computed tomography and guided fine needle biopsy influence clinical decisions? (1 September, 2002)

  D R Baldwin, T Eaton, J Kolbe, T Christmas, D Milne, J Mercer, E Steele, J Garrett, M L Wilsher, A U Wells