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Association between neutrophil elastase (NE) and sputum bacterial load. (A) Data for the activity-based immunoassay (ABI)-NE assay. (B) Data for the kinetic assay. ***P < 0.0001 compared with no organism isolated. The median and interquartile range are shown.
