Annual Congress Vienna 2009

Saturday, 12.09.2009
Sunday, 13.09.2009
Monday, 14.09.2009
Tuesday, 15.09.2009
Wednesday, 16.09.2009

Citations should be made in the following way: Authors. Title. Eur Respir J 2009; 34: Suppl. 53, abstract number.


Material from 2009:
  • 4047 Abstracts
  • 652 Slide presentations
  • 300 Webcasts
  • 93 Handouts
  • 2150 e-posters
  • 300 Multimedia files
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Aetiology and diagnosis of lower respiratory tract infections

Thematic Poster Session
Chairs: V. Mueller (Budapest, Hungary), P. van der Valk (Enschede, Netherlands)
Clinical characteristics and treatment response of pulmonary cryptococcosis in HIV negative patients
D. S. Hyun, K. C. Kim, S. C. Lee (Daegu, Republic Of Korea)
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Aetiology of thoracic empyema in Tunisia
H. Gharsalli, I. Zendah, I. Aissa, S. Antit, H. Ghedira (Ariana, Tunisia)
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Evaluation of a LAMP method for the diagnosis of pertussis in adult patients with prolonged cough
A. Nakamura, Y. Iwashima, T. Kutsuna, O. Takakuwa, S. Sato, K. Kamachi (Nagoya, Musashimurayama, Japan)
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Role of diagnostic flexible bronchoscopies in abnormal chest X-rays in haematlogical malignancies
M. Modi, S. Bhave, S. Apte (Pune, India)
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Terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism is a representative tool for study pulmonary microbial communities
T. Zakharkina, C. Herr, A. O. Yildirim, M. Friedrich, R. Bals (Marburg, Germany)
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Bronchoscopy yield in HIV positive patients, ten years on from the introduction of highly active anti-retroviral therapy
E. Hadley (London, United Kingdom)
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Microbiology of lower respiratory tract infections in a tertiary care hospital of Punjab, India
A. P. Kansal, S. Kansal, H. Singh, G. S. Nagra (Patiala, Nerul, India)
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Pleural fluid procalcitonin levels in identifying pleural effusions due to infection
K. Murase, M. Hayashi, K. Tomii, Y. Takeshima, T. Nishimura, K. Ishihara (Kobe, Japan)
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Our patients of candida and aspergillus pneumonia
A. Gurgun, M. S. Tasbakan, Y. Ceviker, D. Metin, H. Pullukcu, S. Citim, O. K. Basoglu, S. Hilmioglu, F. Bacaklogu (Izmir, Turkey)
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Surveillance of multi-drug resistance and phenotypes of Acinetobacter baumannii isolates producing extended-spectrum-beta-lactamases (ESBLs) from hospital acquired pneumonia patients in west China
Q. Zhang, Q. Ma, C. Wang (Chongqing, China)
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Usefulness of urinary pneumococcal antigen testing in patients with community acquired pneumonia
N. Biswas, K. Cann, M. Shahidi (Aylesbury, United Kingdom)
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Epidemiology of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) in Valencian community (Spain): a view of now and twenty years ago
F. Sanz, J. Blanquer, E. Fernández Fabrellas, R. Blanquer, M. C. Aguar, A. Cervera, M. L. Briones, C. Ferrando, C. Senent, E. Chiner (Valencia, Spain)
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Screening echocardiography in the follow-up strategy of a large Q fever pneumonia outbreak in the Netherlands
G. Limonard, M. Nabuurs-Franssen, K. Groot, I. Weers, C. Wijkmans, R. Besselink, A. Horrevorts (Nijmegen, Oss, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, Herpen, Netherlands)
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Legionella urinary antigen test for pneumonias
S. Minezaki, T. Hirama, K. Hagiwara, M. Kanazawa (Moroyama, Japan)
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Pleural fluid microbial flora analysis in patients with pleuritis by 16S ribosomal RNA gene sequencing method
K. Yatera, T. Kawanami, K. Fukuda, C. Yoshii, H. Taniguchi, M. Kido (Kitakyushu City, Japan)
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Viral and mixed virus-bacteria community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) in hospitalized adults
E. Vera, E. Mincholé, M. A. Ruiz, A. B. Lasierra, B. Moles, N. Peyman-Fard, M. J. Revillo, S. Bello (Zaragoza, South Africa; Zaragoza, Spain)
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The comparison of bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) with mini-BAL in pneumonia developed in immunocompromised patients
A. Gurgun, M. S. Tasbakan, P. Korkmaz Ekren, H. Pullukcu, F. Bacakoglu, E. Erdinc (Izmir, Turkey)
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Legionellosis in 5 departments of coimbra university hospitals – retrospective study from Jan 2000-March 2008
P. G. Ferreira, A. J. Ferreira, A. Aragão, M. H. Saldanha, J. A. Moura, J. Nascimento Costa, J. Pimentel, M. Loureiro, M. F. Baganha (Coimbra, Portugal)
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Community acquired MRSA pneumonia complicated with bronchopleural fistula
O. Salman Sever, M. B. Yüceege, Y. Saygideger, B. Oktay, S. Ardiç (Ankara, Turkey)
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A 20-year experience of electron microscopy in the diagnosis of primary ciliary dyskinesia
J. F. Papon, A. Coste, F. Roudot-Thoraval, M. Boucherat, G. Roger, A. Tamalet, A. M. Vojtek, S. Amselem, E Escudier (Creteil, Paris, France)
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