Neutrophil predominance in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid is associated with disease severity and progression of HRCT findings in pulmonary Mycobacterium avium infection

• Takashi Inomata,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation First Department of Medicine, Hokkaido University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan

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• Satoshi Konno ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: satkonno@med.hokudai.ac.jp

  Affiliation First Department of Medicine, Hokkaido University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6439-2443

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• Katsura Nagai,

  Roles Methodology, Supervision

  Affiliation First Department of Medicine, Hokkaido University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan

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• Masaru Suzuki,

  Roles Methodology, Supervision

  Affiliation First Department of Medicine, Hokkaido University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan

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• Masaharu Nishimura

  Roles Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation First Department of Medicine, Hokkaido University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan

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