Acute cough a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge.docVIP

Cough BioMedCentral Review Open Access Acute cough: a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge Peter V Dicpinigaitis*1, Gene L Colice2, Mary Jo Goolsby3, Gary I Rogg1, Sheldon L Spector4 and Birgit Winther5 Address: 1Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY, USA, 2George Washington University School of Medicine, Washington, DC, USA, 3American Academy of Nurse Practitioners, Augusta, GA, USA, 4UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, USA and 5University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, VA, USA Email: Peter V Dicpinigaitis* - pdicpinigaitis@; Gene L