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HIV-Associated Bacterial Pneumonia [PDF]

Clinics in Chest Medicine, 2013
Community-acquired bacterial pneumonia (CAP) remains one of the most common opportunistic infections in patients who are infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). The risk of CAP increases as the CD4 cell count decreases. The common bacterial pathogens that cause CAP in HIV-infected persons are similar to those in HIV-uninfected individuals,
Feldman, Charles, Anderson, Ronald
openaire   +4 more sources

Role of serum procalcitonin level in early diagnosis of bacterial pneumonia in children, a hospital based study [PDF]

, 2016
Background: Procalcitonin (PCT) is a precursor of hormone calcitonin. It is composed of 116 amino acids and is produced by para follicular C cells of the thyroid and by neuroendocrine cells of lungs and intestine.
Jan, Shah Sumaya, Khan, S. M. Salim, Saleem, Sheikh Mohd   +2 more
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Antimicrobial use Guidelines for Treatment of Respiratory Tract Disease in Dogs and Cats: Antimicrobial Guidelines Working Group of the International Society for Companion Animal Infectious Diseases [PDF]

, 2017
Respiratory tract disease can be associated with primary or secondary bacterial infections in dogs and cats and is a common reason for use and potential misuse, improper use, and overuse of antimicrobials.
Allen, Angus, Bannasch, Barrs, Beatty, Bennett, Berryessa, Bexfield, Binns, Bongrand, Boothe, Bradley, Burns, Chalker, Chalker, Chan, Chandler, Confalonieri, Danish Small Animal Veterinary Association (SvHKS), Dear, Demetriou, Demko, Dossin, Drawz, Egberink, Ellis, Erles, German, Guardabassi, Hartmann, Helps, Henderson, Hollis, Hunter, Jameson, Johnson, Johnson, Johnson, Johnson, Johnson, Keil, Kogan, Kompare, Lee, Lees, Levy, Lionel, Litster, MacPhail, Maggs, Martino, McInnis, McKiernan, Meijvis, Melendez, Meyers, Mochizuki, Morley, Mulholland, Murphy, Owen, Papich, Parnham, Peeters, Pesavento, Priestnall, Priestnall, Proulx, Pui-Ying, Quimby, Quimby, Radhakrishnan, Renshaw, Rheinwald, Rheinwald, Rooney, Rozanski, Ruch-Galle, Ruch-Gallie, Ruch-Gallie, Schulz, Schwarz, Sparkes, Speakman, Speakman, Spindel, Stillion, Sturgess, Sykes, Tart, Trow, Tynan, Vanderkooi, Veir, Velineni, Viitanen, Waddell, Walker, Welsh, Westfall, Wong, Zhu   +101 more
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COVID‐19 and myasthenia gravis: A review of neurological implications of the SARS‐COV‐2

Brain and Behavior, Volume 12, Issue 12, December 2022., 2022
Abstract Introduction This review highlights the potential mechanisms of neuromuscular manifestation of COVID‐19, especially myasthenia gravis (MG). Methods An extensive literature search was conducted by two independent investigators using PubMed/MEDLINE and Google Scholar from its inception to December 2020. Results Exacerbations of clinical symptoms
Syed Muhammad Ismail Shah, Farah Yasmin, Roha Saeed Memon, Nadia Nazir Jatoi, Ilma Saleh Savul, Sana Kazmi, Syed Abdullah Monawwer, Muhammad Daim Bin Zafar, Muhammad Sohaib Asghar, Muhammad Junaid Tahir, Ka Yiu Lee   +10 more
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Gut microbiota in HIV-pneumonia patients is related to peripheral CD4 counts, lung microbiota, and in vitro macrophage dysfunction. [PDF]

, 2019
Pneumonia is common and frequently fatal in HIV-infected patients, due to rampant, systemic inflammation and failure to control microbial infection. While airway microbiota composition is related to local inflammatory response, gut microbiota has been ...
Byanyima, Patrick, Chang, Emily, Davis, J Lucian, Fadrosh, Douglas W, Fong, Serena, Huang, Laurence, Kaswabuli, Sylvia, Lin, Din L, Lynch, Susan V, McCauley, Kathryn, Musisi, Emmanuel, Sanyu, Ingvar, Shenoy, Meera K, Worodria, William, Zawedde, Josephine   +14 more
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Automatic Detection of Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Using X-ray Images and Deep Convolutional Neural Networks [PDF]

Pattern Analysis and Applications, 24(3):1207-1220, 2021, 2020
The 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), with a starting point in China, has spread rapidly among people living in other countries, and is approaching approximately 34,986,502 cases worldwide according to the statistics of European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control.
arxiv   +1 more source

Comparison of Short- versus Long-Course Antimicrobial Therapy of Uncomplicated Bacterial Pneumonia in Dogs: A Double-Blinded, Placebo-Controlled Pilot Study

Animals, 2021
Current treatment for canine bacterial pneumonia relies on protracted courses of antimicrobials (3–6 weeks or more) with recommendations to continue for 1–2 weeks past resolution of all clinical and thoracic radiographic abnormalities. However, in humans,
Aida I. Vientós-Plotts, Isabelle Masseau, Carol R. Reinero   +2 more
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Autosomal recessive hyper‐IgE syndrome due to DOCK8 deficiency: An adjunctive role for omalizumab

Journal of Cutaneous Immunology and Allergy, Volume 5, Issue 6, Page 222-226, December 2022., 2022
We report a rare case of AR‐HIES with DOCK8 deficiency in a young male that was successfully treated by infection management, skincare, diet elimination, and omalizumab. Abstract Autosomal recessive hyper‐IgE syndrome (AR‐HIES) is a rare primary immunodeficiency disorder characterized by high serum IgE levels, recurrent viral skin infections, severe ...
Kim Han Nguyen, Quynh Anh Nguyen, Mai Hoang Tran, Thu Thuy Can, Mai Thi Vu, Nam Sy Vo, Hieu Chu Chi, Sheryl van Nunen, Dinh Van Nguyen   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Expression and significance of serum vitamin D and LL-37 levels in infants with bacterial pneumonia

Frontiers in Pediatrics, 2022
ObjectiveTo investigate the significance of vitamin D and human antimicrobial peptide LL-37 in the occurrence and development of bacterial pneumonia in infants.MethodsFrom January 2021 to January 2022, 80 infants with bacterial pneumonia were selected ...
Shaojie Zhao, Shaojie Zhao, Yixiu He, Menglan Pan, Bingzhang Chen, Siqi Zhang, Yufeng Zhang, Yafei Zhu   +7 more
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Metagenomic identification of pathogenic bacteria for pneumonia from postmortem lung tissue

Human Pathology Reports, 2022
Pathologists have been concerned about the validity of bacterial cultures from lung tissue for the postmortem identification of pneumonia-associated pathogens. Therefore, we studied whether pathogenic bacteria that cause pneumonia could be identified via
Hidenori Yoshizawa, Daisuke Motooka, Shota Nakamura, Ken-ichi Yoshida   +3 more
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