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Table 1 Study cohort

From: The microbiota in bronchoalveolar lavage from young children with chronic lung disease includes taxa present in both the oropharynx and nasopharynx

 

Controls

PBB

CSLD

Number of children

10

28

40 (36 with BE)

Region

   

 Brisbane

10

28

5 (all with BE)

 Darwin

0

0

35 (31 with BE)

Median age in years (95 % CI)

2.0 (1.0–4.0)

1.8 (1.4–2.3)

2.6 (2.1–3.1)

Number of Indigenous children (%)

0 (0)

2 (7)

33 (83)

Males (%)

8 (80)

16 (57)

23 (58)

Received antibiotics within 2 weeks of bronchoscopy (%)

2 (20)

6 (21)

26 (65)

 Azithromycin

1

1

17

 Amoxicillin

0

0

1

 Amoxicillin clavulanate

1

3

1

 Sulfamethoxazole trimethoprim

0

2

1

 Roxithromycin

0

0

1

 Ceftriaxone

0

0

2

 Azithromycin + sulphamethoxazole trimethoprim

0

0

1

 Ceftriaxone, amoxicillin clavulanate, flucloxicillin

0

0

1

Unsure if received antibiotics

0

0

1

  1. BE idiopathic bronchiectasis