POINT: Will New Anti-eosinophilic Drugs Be Useful in Asthma Management? Yes
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Financial/nonfinancial disclosures: The authors have reported to CHEST the following conflicts of interest: Drs Hargreave and Nair have a patent on a filter device provided in a kit to process and examine sputum for quantitative inflammatory cell counts and fluid phase indices. This has not been marketed, and there is currently no profit from this. Drs Hargreave and Nair's university hospital l...
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عنوان ژورنال: Chest
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0012-3692
DOI: 10.1016/j.chest.2016.09.021