EDITORIALS:

Michael D. Iseman and Theodore K. Marras

The Importance of Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Lung Disease

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2008; 178: 999-1000 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Giovanni Battista Migliori, Morgan D'Arcy Richardson, and Christoph Lange

Of Blind Men and Elephants: Making Sense of Extensively Drug-resistant Tuberculosis

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2008; 178: 1000-1001 [Full Text] [PDF]  

ARTICLES:

A. Asthma and Allergy:

William W. Busse, Elliot Israel, Harold S. Nelson, James W. Baker, B. Lauren Charous, Donald Y. Young, Vladimir Vexler, Richard S. Shames, and the Daclizumab Asthma Study Group

Daclizumab Improves Asthma Control in Patients with Moderate to Severe Persistent Asthma: A Randomized, Controlled Trial

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2008; 178: 1002-1008. First published online September 11 2008 as doi:10.1164/rccm.200708-1200OC [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Online Supplement]  

Roman Jaeschke, Paul M. O'Byrne, Filip Mejza, Parameswaran Nair, Wiktoria Lesniak, Jan Brozek, Lehana Thabane, Ji Cheng, Holger J. Schünemann, Malcolm R. Sears, and Gordon Guyatt

The Safety of Long-Acting β-Agonists among Patients with Asthma Using Inhaled Corticosteroids: Systematic Review and Metaanalysis

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2008; 178: 1009-1016. First published online September 5 2008 as doi:10.1164/rccm.200804-494OC [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Online Supplement]  

Candelaria Vergara, Yuhjung J. Tsai, Audrey V. Grant, Nicholas Rafaels, Li Gao, Tracey Hand, Maria Stockton, Monica Campbell, Dilia Mercado, Mezbah Faruque, Georgia Dunston, Terri H. Beaty, Ricardo Riccio Oliveira, Eduardo V. Ponte, Alvaro A. Cruz, Edgar Carvalho, Maria Ilma Araujo, Harold Watson, Robert P. Schleimer, Luis Caraballo, Renate G. Nickel, Rasika A. Mathias, and Kathleen C. Barnes

Gene Encoding Duffy Antigen/Receptor for Chemokines Is Associated with Asthma and IgE in Three Populations

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2008; 178: 1017-1022. First published online September 30 2008 as doi:10.1164/rccm.200801-182OC [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Online Supplement]  

Hidefumi Wakashin, Koichi Hirose, Yuko Maezawa, Shin-ichiro Kagami, Akira Suto, Norihiko Watanabe, Yasushi Saito, Masahiko Hatano, Takeshi Tokuhisa, Yoichiro Iwakura, Paolo Puccetti, Itsuo Iwamoto, and Hiroshi Nakajima

IL-23 and Th17 Cells Enhance Th2-Cell–mediated Eosinophilic Airway Inflammation in Mice

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2008; 178: 1023-1032. First published online September 11 2008 as doi:10.1164/rccm.200801-086OC [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Online Supplement]  

B. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease:

Sara Kirkham, Umme Kolsum, Karine Rousseau, Dave Singh, Jørgen Vestbo, and David J. Thornton

MUC5B Is the Major Mucin in the Gel Phase of Sputum in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2008; 178: 1033-1039. First published online September 5 2008 as doi:10.1164/rccm.200803-391OC [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Online Supplement]  

Martin Picard, Richard Godin, Michael Sinnreich, Jacinthe Baril, Jean Bourbeau, Hélène Perrault, Tanja Taivassalo, and Yan Burelle

The Mitochondrial Phenotype of Peripheral Muscle in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Disuse or Dysfunction?

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2008; 178: 1040-1047. First published online August 28 2008 as doi:10.1164/rccm.200807-1005OC [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Online Supplement]  

C. Environmental and Occupational Lung Disease:

Ron Do, Karen H. Bartlett, Helen Dimich-Ward, Winnie Chu, and Susan M. Kennedy

Biomarkers of Airway Acidity and Oxidative Stress in Exhaled Breath Condensate from Grain Workers

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2008; 178: 1048-1054. First published online August 21 2008 as doi:10.1164/rccm.200711-1731OC [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Online Supplement]  

D. Pediatrics and Lung Development:

Joanna E. MacLean, Eshetu Atenafu, Melanie Kirby-Allen, Ian B. MacLusky, Derek Stephens, Hartmut Grasemann, and Padmaja Subbarao

Longitudinal Decline in Lung Volume in a Population of Children with Sickle Cell Disease

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2008; 178: 1055-1059. First published online September 5 2008 as doi:10.1164/rccm.200708-1219OC [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Online Supplement]  

E. Transplantation:

Stephen A. Wheless, Margaret L. Gulley, Nancy Raab-Traub, Patrick McNeillie, Isabel P. Neuringer, Hubert J. Ford, and Robert M. Aris

Post-transplantation Lymphoproliferative Disease: Epstein-Barr Virus DNA Levels, HLA-A3, and Survival

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2008; 178: 1060-1065. First published online August 28 2008 as doi:10.1164/rccm.200804-531OC [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Online Supplement]  

F. Tuberculosis:

Richard D. Kim, David E. Greenberg, Mary E. Ehrmantraut, Shireen V. Guide, Li Ding, Yvonne Shea, Margaret R. Brown, Milica Chernick, Wendy K. Steagall, Connie G. Glasgow, JingPing Lin, Clara Jolley, Lynn Sorbara, Mark Raffeld, Suvimol Hill, Nilo Avila, Vandana Sachdev, Lisa A. Barnhart, Victoria L. Anderson, Reginald Claypool, Dianne M. Hilligoss, Mary Garofalo, Alan Fitzgerald, Sandra Anaya-O'Brien, Dirk Darnell, Rosamma DeCastro, Heather M. Menning, Stacy M. Ricklefs, Stephen F. Porcella, Kenneth N. Olivier, Joel Moss, and Steven M. Holland

Pulmonary Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Disease: Prospective Study of a Distinct Preexisting Syndrome

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2008; 178: 1066-1074. First published online August 14 2008 as doi:10.1164/rccm.200805-686OC [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Doh Hyung Kim, Hee Jin Kim, Seung-Kyu Park, Suck-Jun Kong, Young Sam Kim, Tae-Hyung Kim, Eun Kyung Kim, Ki Man Lee, Sung Soon Lee, Jae Seuk Park, Won-Jung Koh, Chang-Hoon Lee, Ji Yeon Kim, and Tae Sun Shim

Treatment Outcomes and Long-term Survival in Patients with Extensively Drug-resistant Tuberculosis

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2008; 178: 1075-1082. First published online August 14 2008 as doi:10.1164/rccm.200801-132OC [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Online Supplement]  

Graeme Meintjes, Katalin Andrea Wilkinson, Molebogeng Xheeda Rangaka, Keira Skolimowska, Kerryn van Veen, Musaed Abrahams, Ronnett Seldon, Dominique J. Pepper, Kevin Rebe, Priscilla Mouton, Gilles van Cutsem, Mark Patrick Nicol, Gary Maartens, and Robert John Wilkinson

Type 1 Helper T Cells and FoxP3-positive T Cells in HIV–Tuberculosis-associated Immune Reconstitution Inflammatory Syndrome

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2008; 178: 1083-1089. First published online August 28 2008 as doi:10.1164/rccm.200806-858OC [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Online Supplement]  

CORRESPONDENCE:

John H. M. Austin, Amol Mujoomdar, Charles A. Powell, Gregory D. N. Pearson, and Harry Raftopoulos

Carcinoma of the Lung and Metastatic Disease of the Central Nervous System

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2008; 178: 1090 [Full Text] [PDF]  

David Ost

Carcinoma of the Lung and Metastatic Disease of the Central Nervous System

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2008; 178: 1090 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Samy Suissa

Methodologic Shortcomings of the INSPIRE Randomized Trial

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2008; 178: 1090-1091 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jadwiga A. Wedzicha, Peter M. A. Calverley, Terence A. Seemungal, Gerry Hagan, Zainab Ansari, and Robert A. Stockley

Methodologic Shortcomings of the INSPIRE Randomized Trial

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2008; 178: 1091-1092 [Full Text] [PDF]  

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