primary studies published, non RCT Comparative trial of manual and mechanical percussion technique with gravity-assisted bronchial drainage in patients with cystic fibrosis. Year: 1979 Date: 1984 Author: Maxwell M Source Arch Dis Child. 1979 Jul;54(7):542-4. Study design (if review, criteria of inclusion for studies) prospective, observational study Participants 34 children with cystic fibrosis Interventions pseudomonas vaccine and control groups Outcome measures Pseudomonas colonization Main results No significant differences were observed in the numbers colonised by Pseudomonas aeruginosa or in the overall disease progress of the two groups. Related topics Antibiotic treatment for stenotrophomonas maltophilia in people with cystic fibrosis Antibiotic treatment of early pseudomonas aeruginosa Antibiotics for pulmonary exacerbations Inhaled antibiotics in cystic fibrosis MRSA eradication in CF Prophylactic use of oral antistaphylococcal antibiotic Scheduled antibiotics every 3-4 months / symptom-based treatment