Adjuvant Inhaled Corticosteroids in Community-Acquired Pneumonia: A Review Article
Medical Sciences, 2021 Community-acquired pneumonia is still a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Since the inflammatory response induced by the immune system is often a major contributor to the lung injury, it becomes reasonable to assess the potential benefit ...
Faeq R. Kukhon, Emir Festic
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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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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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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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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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IL-17 can be protective or deleterious in murine pneumococcal pneumonia [PDF]
, 2018 Streptococcus pneumoniae is the major bacterial cause of community-acquired pneumonia, and the leading agent of childhood pneumonia deaths worldwide. Nasal colonization is an essential step prior to infection.
Bayes, Hannah K. +4 more
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Zaporožskij Medicinskij Žurnal, 2014 Aim. Сommunity-acquired pneumonia is life-threatening disease with level of fatal events in hospitals within 12-36 %. In turn, presence of congestive heart failure or type 2 diabetes increases the risk of adverse outcomes in patients with community ...
O. S. Makharynska +2 more
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