Eva Polverino, MD a, Katerina Dimakou, PhD b, Letizia Traversi, MD a, Apostolos Bossios, PhD c, d, Charles S. Haworth, MD e, Michael R. Loebinger, PhD f, Anthony De Soyza, PhD g, h, Montserrat Vendrell, MD i, Pierre-Régis Burgel, PhD l, j, k, Pontus Mertsch, MD l, m, Melissa McDonnell, PhD n, Sabina Škrgat, MD o, p, q, Luis Maiz Carro, MD r, Oriol Sibila, PhD s, t, Menno van der Eerden, PhD u, Paula Kauppi, PhD v, Adam T. Hill, MD w, Robert Wilson, MD e, Branislava Milenkovic, PhD x, y, Rosario Menendez, MD z, Marlene Murris, MD aa, Tonia Digalaki, MD b, Megan L. Crichton, PhD bb, Sermin Borecki, MD cc, Dusanka Obradovic, PhD dd, ee, Adam Nowinski, PhD ff, Adelina Amorim, MD gg, Antoni Torres, MD hh, Natalie Lorent, PhD ii, Tobias Welte, MD jj, kk, ll, Francesco Blasi, MD mm, nn, Eva Van Braeckel, PhD oo, pp, Josje Altenburg, PhD qq, Amelia Shoemark, PhD bb, Michal Shteinberg, PhD rr, ss, Wim Boersma, MD tt, J. Stuart Elborn, MD uu, Stefano Aliberti, MD vv, ww, Felix C. Ringshausen, MD jj, kk, ll, James D. Chalmers, PhD bb, ⁎ , Pieter C. Goeminne, MD xx
on behalf of theEMBARC registry investigators
a Pneumology Department, Hospital Universitari Vall d’Hebron, Vall d’Hebron Institut de Recerca, CIBERES, Barcelona, Spain
b Fifth Respiratory Department and Bronchiectasis Unit, General Hospital for Chest Diseases “Sotiria,” Athens, Greece
c Department of Respiratory Medicine and Allergy, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
d Division of Lung and Airway Research, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
e Cambridge Centre for Lung Infection, Royal Papworth Hospital and University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
f National Heart and Lung Institute, Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
g Population and Health Science Institute, Newcastle University, Newcastle, United Kingdom
h NIHR Biomedical Research Centre for Ageing, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle, United Kingdom
i Department of Pulmonology, Girona Biomedical Research Institute Dr Josep Trueta University Hospital (IDIBGI), University of Girona, Girona, Spain
j Department of Respiratory Medicine and French Cystic Fibrosis National Reference Center, Hôpital Cochin, AP-HP, Paris, France
k Institut Cochin, Université Paris Cité, INSERM U1016, Paris, France
l Department of Medicine V, University Hospital, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany
m Comprehensive Pneumology Center, German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Munich, Germany
n Department of Respiratory Medicine, Galway University Hospital, Galway, Ireland
o University Clinic of Respiratory and Allergic Diseases Golnik, Golnik, Slovenia
p Medical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
q Pulmonary Department, Division of Internal Medicine, University Medical Centre Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
r Chronic Bronchial Infection Unit, Pneumology Service, Ramón y Cajal Hospital, Alcalá de Henares University, Madrid, Spain
s Servicio de Neumología, Instituto Clínico de Respiratorio, Hospital Clínic Barcelona, August Pi Sunyer Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBAPS), University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
t CIBERES, ISCIII, Madrid, Spain
u Department of Respiratory Medicine, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
v Heart and Lung Center, Helsinki University Hospital, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
w Department of Respiratory Medicine, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
x Clinic for Pulmonary Diseases, University Clinical Center of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia
y School of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
z Pneumology Department, Hospital Universitario y Politécnico La Fe–Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria La Fe, Valencia, Spain
aa Department of Respiratory Diseases, CHU de Toulouse, Toulouse, France
bb Division of Molecular and Clinical Medicine, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, University of Dundee, Dundee, United Kingdom
cc Department of Pulmonology Diseases, Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty, İstanbul University–Cerrahpaşa, Istanbul, Turkey
dd Faculty of Medicine Novi Sad, University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia
ee Institute for Pulmonary Diseases, Put doktora Goldmana 4, Sremska Kamenica, Serbia
ff Department of Epidemiology, National Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases Research Institute, Warsaw, Poland
gg Pulmonology Department, Centro Hospitalar Universitário São João and Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
hh Department of Pulmonology, Hospital Clinic, University of Barcelona, CIBERES, IDIBAPS, ICREA, Barcelona, Spain
ii Department of Respiratory Diseases, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
jj Department of Respiratory Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
kk Biomedical Research in Endstage & Obstructive Lung Disease Hannover, German Center for Lung Research, Hannover, Germany
ll European Reference Network on Rare and Complex Respiratory Diseases, Frankfurt, Germany
mm Department of Pathophysiology and Transplantation, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
nn Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy
oo Department of Internal Medicine and Paediatrics, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
pp Department of Respiratory Medicine, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium
qq Department of Pulmonary Diseases, Amsterdam University Medical Centres, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
rr Pulmonology Institute and CF Center, Carmel Medical Center, Haifa, Israel
ss B. Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, The Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
tt Department of Pulmonary Diseases, Northwest Clinics, Alkmaar, The Netherlands
uu Faculty of Medicine, Health and Life Sciences, Queen’s University, Belfast, Northern Ireland
vv Respiratory Unit, IRCCS Humanitas Research Hospital, Milan, Italy
ww Department of Biomedical Sciences, Humanitas University, Milan, Italy
xx Department of Respiratory Disease, AZ Nikolaas, Sint-Niklaas, Belgium