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Community-Acquired Pneumonia [PDF]

Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal, 2015
This article not only reviews the essential aspects of community-acquired pneumonia for daily clinical practice, but also highlights the controversial issues and provides the newest available information. Community-acquired pneumonia is considered in a broad sense, without excluding certain variants that, in recent years, a number of authors have ...
M, Falguera, M F, Ramírez
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Community-Acquired Pneumonia

Annals of Internal Medicine, 1998
This issue provides a clinical overview of community-acquired pneumonia, focusing on prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and practice improvement.
H A, Cassiere, M S, Niederman
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Community-acquired pneumonia [PDF]

Current Opinion in Pulmonary Medicine, 2003
Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) remains an important cause of morbidity and mortality. Streptococcus pneumoniae is the most common pathogen and respiratory syncitial virus the most important viral pathogen in children. The role of urinary antigen testing and PCR for the diagnosis forS.
Julie, Andrews, Behzad, Nadjm, Vanya, Gant, Nandini, Shetty   +3 more
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Community-acquired pneumonia

The Lancet
Community-acquired pneumonia is a major global health challenge that disproportionately affects vulnerable populations, including older people, immunocompromised people, those with chronic conditions, and young children. Once considered solely an acute illness, community-acquired pneumonia is now recognised as a disease with long-term complications ...
Reyes, Luis Felipe, Conway Morris, Andrew, Serrano-Mayorga, Cristian, Derde, Lennie PG, Dickson, Robert P, Martin-Loeches, Ignacio   +5 more
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Health disparities in chronic liver disease

Hepatology, EarlyView., 2022
Abstract The syndemic of hazardous alcohol consumption, opioid use, and obesity has led to important changes in liver disease epidemiology that have exacerbated health disparities. Health disparities occur when plausibly avoidable health differences are experienced by socially disadvantaged populations.
Ani Kardashian, Marina Serper, Norah Terrault, Lauren D. Nephew   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels in hospitalized adults with community-acquired pneumonia [PDF]

, 2018
Introduction: Community‐acquired pneumonia (CAP) is the infectious disease with the highest number of deaths worldwide. Several studies have shown an association between vitamin D deficiency and increases susceptibility to respiratory tract infections ...
Bool, British Thoracic Society Research Committee and the Public Health Laboratory Service, Charlson, Cukic, Fine, Gombart, Haan, Huang, Jolliffe, Kamen, Karonova, Kim, Kochanek, Lim, Liu, Lu, Luna, Mandell, Niederman, Pletz, Remmelts, Ross, Røysted, Schnoor, Schöttker, Toubi, Welte, Youssef   +27 more
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Seroepidemiology of Coxiella burnetii Infection and its Frequency as a Cause of Community-Acquired Pneumonia in Canada

Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2002
The present study tested acute and convalescent serum samples from 788 patients hospitalized for community-acquired pneumonia in seven Canadian provinces for antibodies to Coxiella burnetii.
Thomas J Marrie, Emidio de Carolis, Canadian Community Acquired Pneumonia Investigators   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Clinical and molecular epidemiological features of coronavirus HKU1-associated community-acquired pneumonia [PDF]

, 2005
Background. Recently, we described the discovery of a novel group 2 coronavirus, coronavirus HKU1 (CoV-HKU1), from a patient with pneumonia. However, the clinical and molecular epidemiological features of CoV-HKU1-associated pneumonia are unknown ...
Chan, KH, Chen, H, Cheng, VCC, Chu, CM, Guan, Y, Huang, Y, Lau, SKP, Lee, RA, Luk, WK, Poon, RWS, Tang, BSF, Tsoi, HW, Wong, BHL, Wong, GKM, Woo, PCY, Wu, AKL, Yuen, KY, Yung, RWH   +17 more
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Care Plan for Community-Acquired Pneumonia

Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2000
This paper presents a critical pathway for the treatment of pneumonia that has been shown to be effective in a randomized clinical trial. The pathway uses a pneumonia-specific severity of illness score to guide the admission decision.
Thomas Marrie, The Community-Acquired Pneumonia Outpatient Intravenous Antibiotic Therapy Working Group   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Comparison of Bacteremic Pneumococcal Pneumonia with Nonbacteremic Community-Acquired Pneumonia of Any Etiology — Results from a Canadian Multicenter Study

Canadian Respiratory Journal, 2003
BACKGROUND: Bacteremic pneumococcal pneumonia has not been the subject of a multicentre Canadian Study.
Thomas J Marrie, Donald E Low, Emidio de Carolis, the Canadian Community-Acquired Pneumonia Investigators   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source