TY - GEN AU - Domenech, Arnau AU - Ardanuy, Carmen AU - Pallarés, Román AU - Grau, Inmaculada AU - Santos, Salud AU - de la Campa, Adela G AU - Liñares, Josefina PY - 2013 DO - 10.1371/journal.pone.0059027 UR - http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12105/12782 AB - Objectives: To analyze the role of the capsular type in pneumococci causing relapse and reinfection episodes of acute exacerbation in COPD patients. Methods: A total of 79 patients with 116 recurrent episodes of acute exacerbations caused by S.... LA - eng PB - Public Library of Science (PLOS) KW - Aged KW - Female KW - Humans KW - Male KW - Microbial Sensitivity Tests KW - Middle Aged KW - Multilocus Sequence Typing KW - Pneumococcal Infections KW - Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive KW - Recurrence KW - Serotyping KW - Streptococcus pneumoniae TI - Some pneumococcal serotypes are more frequently associated with relapses of acute exacerbations in COPD patients TY - research article ER -