Treating childhood pneumonia in hard-to-reach areas: a model-based comparison of mobile clinics and community-based care. [PDF]
BACKGROUND: Where hard-to-access populations (such as those living in insecure areas) lack access to basic health services, relief agencies, donors, and ministries of health face a dilemma in selecting the most effective intervention strategy. This paper
Francesco Checchi +8 more
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The effectiveness of immunization of children against Pneumococcal infection in Penza, Russia
The urgency of the problem is due to the fact that respiratory diseases occupy one of the first places in the structure of child morbidity, and community-acquired pneumonia remains one of the main causes of hospitalization and mortality among children ...
O. N. Lesina +4 more
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Epidemiology of community acquired pneumonia [PDF]
Despite efforts in prevention worldwide including recent advances in vaccine therapy, childhood community acquired pneumonia (CAP) remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality both in the developed and the developing world. Traditionally, qualifying the aetiology of CAP proved to be fraught with challenges particularly due to low yields from blood ...
Manikam, Logan, Lakhanpaul, Monica
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Community-acquired pneumonia is a common cause of acute hospitalisation. Identifying patients with community-acquired pneumonia among patients suspected of having the disease can be a challenge, which causes unnecessary antibiotic treatment.
Anne Heltborg +11 more
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Chlamydia species as a cause of community-acquired pneumonia in Canada.
Chlamydia pneumoniae has been implicated as a cause of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) in several studies. However, there has been no comprehensive study of the role of Chlamydia species (C. pneumoniae, C.
De Carolis, E +4 more
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Biomarkers and bacterial pneumonia risk in patients with treated HIV infection: a case-control study [PDF]
Background: Despite advances in HIV treatment, bacterial pneumonia continues to cause considerable morbidity and mortality in patients with HIV infection. Studies of biomarker associations with bacterial pneumonia risk in treated HIV-infected patients do
Kunisaki, KM +39 more
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DIAGNOSTIC VALUE OF PROCALCITONIN, C-REACTIVE PROTEIN AND TRANS-RESONANT FUNCTIONAL TOPOGRAPHY IN THE COURSE OF COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA [PDF]
Comparative assessmentof bloodprocalcitonin and C-reactive protein determination methods in community-acquired pneumonia has been performed. Practical advantage of C-reactive protein determination over procalcitonin one has been demonstrated.
A.V. Konkov, S.E. Popovich
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Community-Acquired Pneumonia in Children
В статье представлены данные об актуальности, распространенности и критериях диагностики пневмонии у детей в контексте анализа данных Всемирной организации здравоохранения.
I.L. Vysochina +2 more
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Background: Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a major cause of multidrug resistant (MDR) nosocomial pathogen isolated from clinical samples of patients admitted to the intensive care unit. Treating the ever-increasing antimicrobial resistance in P.
Mitra Kar +3 more
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Serum glucose levels for predicting death in patients admitted to hospital for community acquired pneumonia: prospective cohort study [PDF]
To examine whether acute dysglycaemia predicts death in people admitted to hospital with community acquired ...
Rohde, Gernot +26 more
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