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Clinical characteristics and predictive models for hospitalized patients with COVID-19 combined with bacterial pneumonia. [PDF]

PLoS ONE
BackgroundThis study aimed to analyze the clinical characteristics of hospitalized patients with COVID-19 combined with bacterial pneumonia and establish a predictive model to assist clinicians in the differential diagnosis and evaluation of the ...
Man Yuan, Mei Liang, Jian Xu, Da He, Yanfang Zhang, Xiaoran Li, Jinzhi He, Yang Yang, Zhiyong Zong, Junyan Qu   +9 more
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Comparison between Acute Phase Reactant in COVID-19 Pneumonia And Bacterial pneumonia [PDF]

Al-Azhar International Medical Journal, 2022
Background: Several instances of pneumonia from an unknown cause were recorded in the city of Wuhan, China in December 2019, and were later confirmed as coronavirus illness 2019. (COVID-19).
Abdallah Soliman, Mohamed sedky, Hosam Alfeky   +2 more
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Prokineticin 2 promotes macrophages-mediated antibacterial host defense against bacterial pneumonia

International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2022
: Objectives: Bacterial pneumonia is a common serious infectious disease with high morbidity and mortality. Prokineticin 2 (PK2) has recently been identified as a novel immunomodulator in a variety of diseases; however, its role in bacterial pneumonia ...
Qianqian Tu, Xiaoyan Yu, Wei Xie, Yetao Luo, Hong Tang, Kai Chen, Yanting Ruan, Yue Li, Jie Zhou, Yibing Yin, Dapeng Chen, Zhixin Song   +11 more
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Adherence to guidelines on the use of amoxicillin for treatment of ambulatory pneumonia in children younger than 5 years, Colombia, 2017–2019

Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública, 2023
Objectives. To determine the level of adherence to clinical guidelines in prescribing amoxicillin to children younger than 5 years with pneumonia in outpatient settings in Colombia from 2017 to 2019, and assess the factors associated with adherence ...
Luisa Moyano Ariza, Brindis Ochoa, Hemant D. Shewade, Jeffrey K. Edwards, Julián Trujillo Trujillo, Claudia M. Cuellar, Jaime Rodríguez, Katrina Hann, Mauro Sanchez   +8 more
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Prevalence of bacterial pneumonia among HIV-Seropositive patients in East Africa: Review

Cogent Medicine, 2021
Bacterial pneumonia is a significant cause of morbidity and mortality among the HIV-seropositive patients still in the era of combination Antiretroviral Therapy. The actual burden of bacterial pneumonia in HIV-seropositive patients is not well documented
Kindu Alem
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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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Transfer Learning with Deep Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) for Pneumonia Detection Using Chest X-ray

Applied Sciences, 2020
Pneumonia is a life-threatening disease, which occurs in the lungs caused by either bacterial or viral infection. It can be life-endangering if not acted upon at the right time and thus the early diagnosis of pneumonia is vital.
Tawsifur Rahman, Muhammad E. H. Chowdhury, Amith Khandakar, Khandaker R. Islam, Khandaker F. Islam, Zaid B. Mahbub, Muhammad A. Kadir, Saad Kashem   +7 more
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Risk factors for in-hospital mortality and secondary bacterial pneumonia among hospitalized adult patients with community-acquired influenza: a large retrospective cohort study

Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control, 2023
Background Secondary bacterial pneumonia is an important complication of seasonal influenza, but little data is available about impact on death and risk factors.
Guangzhao Yi, Marlieke E. A. de Kraker, Niccolò Buetti, Xiaoni Zhong, Jinyan Li, Zhe Yuan, Weimin Zhu, Jia Zhou, Hongyu Zhou   +8 more
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Respiratory tract infections in children with tracheostomy

Journal of Microbiology, Immunology and Infection, 2020
Background: Children with tracheostomy are at increased risk for respiratory tract infections, yet the risk involved in tracheostomy related infections is unclear.
Chiew-Yin Tan, Nan-Chang Chiu, Kuo-Sheng Lee, Hsin Chi, Fu-Yuan Huang, Daniel Tsung-Ning Huang, Lung Chang, Yen-Hsin Kung, Ching-Ying Huang   +8 more
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The changes of prevalence and etiology of pediatric pneumonia from National Emergency Department Information System in Korea, between 2007 and 2014 [PDF]

Korean Journal of Pediatrics, 2018
Purpose Understanding changes in pathogen and pneumonia prevalence among pediatric pneumonia patients is important for the prevention of infectious diseases.
Eun Ju Shin, Yunsun Kim, Jin-Young Jeong, Yu Mi Jung, Mi-Hee Lee, Eun Hee Chung   +5 more
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