Kunal Jakharia Co-Authors Study Finding Increased Bacteria Infection in Patients with Chronic Lung Disease
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A recent study co-authored by Kunal Jakharia, MD, assistant professor of medicine in the UNC Division of Pulmonary Diseases and Critical Care Medicine, and published in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Diseases: Journal of the COPD Foundation, found that people with bronchiectasis and chronic sinus disease were more likely to have mucus samples that tested positive for a bacteria known as Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Bronchiectasis is a chronic lung disease that causes permanent widening and damage of t