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Authors’ response to ’TAP deficiency is also a cause of bronchiectasis‘
  1. Deborah Whitters,
  2. Robert A Stockley
  1. Department of Lung Function and Sleep, Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
  1. Correspondence to Dr Deborah Whitters, Department of Lung Function and Sleep, Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2WB, UK; deborah.whitters{at}uhb.nhs.uk

https://doi.org/10.1136/thoraxjnl-2012-203138

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    We thank Zimmer et al for their comments1 on our recent article ‘Immunity and bacterial colonisation in bronchiectasis’.2

    We accept that indirect activation of natural killer (NK) cells by bacterial pathogens has been well described.3 ,4 We also recognise that a role for NK cells may be suggested by the link between patients with familial bronchiectasis with impaired human leucocyte antigen (HLA) class I expression and as a result …

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    • Provenance and peer review Commissioned; internally peer reviewed.