Community-Acquired Pneumonia in Sub-Saharan Africa [PDF]
, 2016 Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) in sub-Saharan Africa is a common cause of adult hospitalization and is associated with significant mortality. Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevalence in the region leads to differences in CAP epidemiology ...
Aston, R J, Rylance, Jamie
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Legionnaires' Disease - Results of a Multicenter Canadian Study
Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2003 BACKGROUND: There has never been a cross-Canada surveillance project to determine the rate of Legionella species as a cause of community-acquired pneumonia requiring hospitalization and to determine whether there are any regional differences in the rates
Thomas J Marrie +4 more
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ETIOLOGICAL FEATURES AND ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE IN HEALTHCARE-ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA
Arta Medica, 2020 Objectives. Healthcare-associated pneumonia develops in patients undergoing regular medical procedures or has a longterm contact with the hospital environment. Several studies have shown important differences in healthcare-associated pneumonia, comparing
Cristina Toma +2 more
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Aetiology in community-acquired pneumonia [PDF]
, 2012 Background: Although community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is a common and well-known disease, its microbial aetiology is still not well characterized. During the past few years nucleic acid detection using real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) has been
Johansson, Niclas
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Viral pneumonia in adults and older children in sub-Saharan Africa — epidemiology, aetiology, diagnosis and management [PDF]
, 2014 Community-acquired pneumonia causes substantial morbidity and mortality in sub-Saharan Africa with an estimated 131 million new cases each year. Viruses — such as influenza virus, respiratory syncytial virus and parainfluenza virus — are now recognised ...
Ho, Antonia
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Feature Selection, Ranking of Each Feature and Classification for the Diagnosis of Community Acquired Legionella Pneumonia [PDF]
, 2001 Diagnosis of community acquired legionella pneumonia (CALP) is currently performed by means of laboratory techniques which may delay diagnosis several hours.
Fiz Fernández, José Antonio +3 more
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Community acquired pneumonia incidence before and after proton pump inhibitor prescription: population based study [PDF]
, 2016 Objective To examine the risk of community acquired pneumonia before and after prescription of proton pump inhibitor (PPI) and assess whether unmeasured confounding explains this association.
Card, Timothy R. +2 more
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Role of multidrug-resistant pathogens in health-care-associated pneumonia. [PDF]
, 2011 Comment on: Rethinking the concepts of community-acquired and health-care-associated pneumonia.
CORRAO, Salvatore +3 more
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Community acquired pneumonia [PDF]
Archives of Disease in Childhood, 2001 We live in an era when medical practice is increasingly regulated by guidelines and protocols. Ideally, such guidance should be evidence based, and in particular it is generally recommended that advice on medical treatment should be based on the results of adequately powered, double blind, placebo controlled trials or, some would say, better still, a ...
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Etiology and factors associated with pneumonia in children under 5 years of age in Mali: A prospective case-control study [PDF]
, 2015 Background: There are very limited data on children with pneumonia in Mali. The objective was to assess the etiology and factors associated with community-acquired pneumonia in hospitalized children
Bénet, T. (Thomas) +10 more
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