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Toll-like receptor 4 in acute viral infection: Too much of a good thing

PLoS Pathogens, 2018
Although a well-regulated inflammatory response is a vital defense mechanism against viral infection, too much inflammation can be detrimental. Excessive inflammatory responses, which are characterized by elevated levels of a broad array of pro ...
J. Olejnik, A. Hume, E. Mühlberger
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A Systematic Review of therapeutic agents for the treatment of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) [PDF]

, 2019
Background The Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) was first described in 2012 and attracted a great international attention due to multiple healthcare associated outbreaks.
Al-Ali, Anfal Y., Al-Tawfiq, Jaffar A., Momattin, Hisham   +2 more
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CHARACTERISTICS OF THE EPIDEMICAL PROCESS OF ACUTE RESPIRATORY INFECTIONS IN THE REPUBLIC OF KARELIA IN THE MODERN PERIOD

Журнал инфектологии, 2018
Acute respiratory viral infections remain the most common group of diseases causing significant social and economic damage to society. Objective: to study the epidemiological characteristics of respiratory disease influenza and other etiology in the ...
L. V. Rubis
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Infants hospitalized for Bordetella pertussis infection commonly have respiratory viral coinfections [PDF]

, 2017
Background: Whether viral coinfections cause more severe disease than Bordetella pertussis (B. pertussis) alone remains unclear. We compared clinical disease severity and sought clinical and demographic differences between infants with B.
Agricola, Eleonora, Buttinelli, Gabriele, Campagna, Ilaria, Carsetti, R., Concato, C., DI MATTIA, Greta, Fedele, Giorgio, Ferretti, Beatrice, Frassanito, Antonella, Gesualdo, Francesco, Gonfiantini, Michaela Veronika, Marcellini, Valentina, Midulla, Fabio, Nenna, Raffaella, Nicolai, Ambra, Pandolfi, Elisabetta, Pierangeli, Alessandra, Russo, Luisa, Schiavoni, I., Stefanelli, P., Tozzi, A. E., Vennarucci, Valentina Spuri, Villani, Alberto   +22 more
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Viral etiology of acute respiratory infections in hospitalized children in Novosibirsk City, Russia (2013 – 2017)

bioRxiv, 2018
Background Acute respiratory infections (ARIs) cause a considerable morbidity and mortality worldwide especially in children. However, there are few studies of the etiological structure of ARIs in Russia. In this work, we analyzed the etiology of ARIs in
O. Kurskaya, T. Ryabichenko, N. Leonova, Wei-feng Shi, Hongtao Bi, K. Sharshov, E. Kazachkova, I. Sobolev, E. Prokopyeva, T. Kartseva, A. Alekseev, A. Shestopalov   +11 more
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ACUTE RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS: WIDENING OF POSSIBILITIES OF ANTIVIRAL TREATMENT

Вопросы современной педиатрии, 2013
Problem of effective and safe treatment and prophylaxis of acute respiratory tract infections is one of the most topical problems in clinical pediatrics.
V. A. Bulgakova
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TREM-2 promotes macrophage survival and lung disease after respiratory viral infection

Journal of Experimental Medicine, 2015
Wu et al. use a mouse model to show that active respiratory viral infection triggers TREM-2 expression on the macrophage cell surface and thereby prevents macrophage apoptosis during the acute illness.
Kangyun Wu, D. Byers, Xiaohua Jin, E. Agapov, J. Alexander-Brett, Anand C. Patel, M. Cella, Susan Gilfilan, M. Colonna, D. Kober, T. Brett, M. Holtzman   +11 more
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Lower respiratory tract infection in the community: associations between viral aetiology and illness course

Clinical Microbiology and Infection, 2020
Objectives This study determined associations between respiratory viruses and subsequent illness course in primary care adult patients presenting with acute cough and/or suspected lower respiratory tract infection.
L. Vos, Robin Bruyndonckx, Robin Bruyndonckx, N. Zuithoff, P. Little, J. Oosterheert, B. Broekhuizen, C. Lammens, K. Loens, M. Viveen, C. Butler, D. Crook, K. Zlateva, Herman Goossens, Herman Goossens, E. Claas, M. Ieven, A. M. Loon, T. Verheij, F. Coenjaerts   +19 more
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An unusual presentation of a case of human psittacosis [PDF]

, 2018
Background: Chlamydia psittaci is a gram-negative, obligate intracellular organism. Birds are the main reservoir, but also non-avian domestic animals and humans can be infected.
Boelens, Jerina, De Spiegeleer, Anton, Thijs, Elke, Van Braeckel, Eva, Vande Weygaerde, Yannick, Vanrompay, Daisy, Vermaelen, Karim, Versteele, Charlot   +7 more
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Evaluation of a combined MxA and CRP point-of-care immunoassay to identify viral and/or bacterial immune response in patients with acute febrile respiratory infection

European Clinical Respiratory Journal, 2015
Background Challenges in the clinical differentiation of viral and/or bacterial respiratory infection lead to the misappropriation of antibiotics and increased healthcare costs.
R. Sambursky, N. Shapiro
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