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Brief communications

• Utility of routine screening for alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency in patients with bronchiectasis (17 April, 2020)

  Luis Carreto, Meghan Morrison, Jackie Donovan, Simon Finch, Gan Liang Tan, Tom Fardon, Robert Wilson, Elisabeth Furrie, Michael Loebinger, James D Chalmers
• Admission to hospital in the UK at a weekend does not influence the prognosis of adults with community-acquired pneumonia (31 March, 2020)

  Hannah Lawrence, Tricia M McKeever, Wei Shen Lim
• Social isolation and loneliness as risk factors for hospital admissions for respiratory disease among older adults (21 April, 2020)

  Feifei Bu, Keir Philip, Daisy Fancourt
• Mcl-1 protects eosinophils from apoptosis and exacerbates allergic airway inflammation (17 April, 2020)

  Jennifer M Felton, David A Dorward, Jennifer A Cartwright, Philippe MD Potey, Calum T Robb, Jingang Gui, Ruth W Craig, Jürgen Schwarze, Christopher Haslett, Rodger Duffin, Ian Dransfield, Christopher D Lucas, Adriano G Rossi
• Tuberculosis bacillary load, an early marker of disease severity: the utility of tuberculosis Molecular Bacterial Load Assay (30 April, 2020)

  Wilber Sabiiti, Khalide Azam, Eoghan Charles William Farmer, Davis Kuchaka, Bariki Mtafya, Ruth Bowness, Katarina Oravcova, Isobella Honeyborne, Dimitrios Evangelopoulos, Timothy Daniel McHugh, Celso Khosa, Andrea Rachow, Norbert Heinrich, Elizabeth Kampira, Geraint Davies, Nilesh Bhatt, Elias N Ntinginya, Sofia Viegas, Ilesh Jani, Mercy Kamdolozi, Aaron Mdolo, Margaret Khonga, Martin J Boeree, Patrick P J Phillips, Derek Sloan, Michael Hoelscher, Gibson Kibiki, Stephen H Gillespie