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Original articles

Interstitial lung disease

• Original article: Ectopic respiratory epithelial cell differentiation in bronchiolised distal airspaces in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (21 March, 2011)

  Laurent Plantier, Bruno Crestani, Susan E Wert, Monique Dehoux, Barbara Zweytick, Andreas Guenther, Jeffrey A Whitsett

Respiratory infection

• Original article: Blood culture bottle culture of pleural fluid in pleural infection (1 April, 2011)

  Sarah M Menzies, Najib M Rahman, John M Wrightson, Helen E Davies, Robert Shorten, Stephen H Gillespie, Christopher W H Davies, Nick A Maskell, Andrew A Jeffrey, Y C Gary Lee, Robert J O Davies
• Original article: Emergence of parapneumonic empyema in the USA (26 May, 2011) Free

  Carlos G Grijalva, Yuwei Zhu, J Pekka Nuorti, Marie R Griffin
• Original article: High prevalence of subclinical tuberculosis in HIV-1-infected persons without advanced immunodeficiency: implications for TB screening (31 May, 2011)

  Tolu Oni, Rachael Burke, Relebohile Tsekela, Nonzwakazi Bangani, Ronnett Seldon, Hannah P Gideon, Kathryn Wood, Katalin A Wilkinson, Tom H M Ottenhoff, Robert J Wilkinson

Cystic fibrosis

• Original article: Validation and use of a parametric model for projecting cystic fibrosis survivorship beyond observed data: a birth cohort analysis (8 June, 2011)

  Abaigeal D Jackson, Leslie Daly, Andrew L Jackson, Cecily Kelleher, Bruce C Marshall, Hebe B Quinton, Godfrey Fletcher, Mary Harrington, Shijun Zhou, Edward F McKone, Charles Gallagher, Linda Foley, Patricia Fitzpatrick
• Original article: Exacerbation frequency and clinical outcomes in adult patients with cystic fibrosis (15 June, 2011)

  Kaïssa de Boer, Katherine L Vandemheen, Elizabeth Tullis, Steve Doucette, Dean Fergusson, Andreas Freitag, Nigel Paterson, Mary Jackson, M Diane Lougheed, Vijay Kumar, Shawn D Aaron

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

• Original article:

  The fibrinogen cleavage product Aα-Val³⁶⁰, a specific marker of neutrophil elastase activity in vivo

  (26 May, 2011)

  Richard I Carter, Richard A Mumford, Kelly M Treonze, Paul E Finke, Phillip Davies, Qian Si, John L Humes, Asger Dirksen, Eeva Piitulainen, Ali Ahmad, Robert A Stockley

Epidemiology

• Original article: Relationship of vitamin D status to adult lung function and COPD (8 June, 2011)

  Seif O Shaheen, Karen A Jameson, Sian M Robinson, Barbara J Boucher, Holly E Syddall, Avan Aihie Sayer, Cyrus Cooper, John W Holloway, Elaine M Dennison

Respiratory epidemiology

• Original article: Risk of fractures with inhaled corticosteroids in COPD: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials and observational studies (20 May, 2011)

  Yoon K Loke, Rodrigo Cavallazzi, Sonal Singh

Tuberculosis

• Original article:

  Molecular epidemiology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in East Lancashire 2001–2009

  (15 June, 2011)

  A D Sails, A Barrett, S Sarginson, J G Magee, P Maynard, I Hafeez, L P Ormerod