Three months of antibiotic treatment is no better than placebo in reducing the airway bacterial load in patients with stable COPD, a new study has shown. There was also no difference in total bacterial load assessed by quantitative PCR rather than culture, or in sputum inflammatory markers, but treatment markedly increased antibiotic resistance. The findings ...
COPD
Long-term antibiotics unhelpful in stable COPD
23 Jul 2015