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Analysis of microbial flora in skin lesions of primary acute guttate psoriasis

Pifu-xingbing zhenliaoxue zazhi, 2022
Objective To investigate the differences in the cutaneous microbiome between patients with primary acute guttate psoriasis and healthy controls. Methods We enrolled 18 patients with primary acute guttate psoriasis, including 9 patients with upper ...
Jia ZHANG, Kaiyun ZHANG, Tao CHEN, Juan ZHAO, Hongmei WANG, Yingfang XUE, Guohui ZHANG   +6 more
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Lower respiratory tract infections among newly diagnosed sleep apnea patients

BMC Pulmonary Medicine, 2023
Background Sleep apnea is associated with chronic comorbidities and acute complications. Existing data suggest that sleep apnea may predispose to an increased risk and severity of respiratory tract infections.
Jaana Keto, Thijs Feuth, Miika Linna, Tarja Saaresranta   +3 more
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Frequency of Respiratory Syncytial Virus Among Hospitalized Children with Acute Lower Respiratory Tract Infections

Pakistan Armed Forces Medical Journal, 2022
Objective: To determine the frequency of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) among hospitalized children with acute lower respiratory tract infections (ALRI) and associated risk factors. Study Design: Comparative cross-sectional study.
Murtaza Hussain, Qudrat Ullah Malik, Qamar uz Zaman Khan, Shaista Mumtaz, Muhammad Abbas, Junaid Bashir   +5 more
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Elderly patients with concurrent hip fracture and lower respiratory tract infection: the pathogens and prognosis over different bedridden periods

Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research, 2021
Background Elderly patients who experience hip fractures often become bedridden and are at risk of developing lower respiratory tract infections. The current study was to investigate the etiology and bacterial drug resistance patterns of elderly patients
Yuan Yuan, Wei Tian, Xiaohui Deng, Rui Yue, Xiaozhu Ge, Xinbao Wu, Ping Zhang   +6 more
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The Basics and the Advancements in Diagnosis of Bacterial Lower Respiratory Tract Infections

Diagnostics, 2019
Lower respiratory tract infections (LRTIs) are the leading infectious cause of death and the sixth-leading cause of death overall worldwide. Streptococcus pneumoniae, with more than 90 serotypes, remains the most common identified cause of community ...
Stephanie Noviello, David B. Huang
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Acute Lower Respiratory Tract Infection [PDF]

New England Journal of Medicine, 2008
Acute lower respiratory tract infections are a major cause of death and disability, yet the mechanisms that make such infections so virulent are not entirely understood. This review emphasizes the roles of inflammation and the response of the innate immune system and explains how these two processes interact to rid the lung of microbes but also how ...
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Use of Ribavirin treatment in Pre-transplant patients with Respiratory Syncytial Virus Upper Respiratory Tract Infection: Case report and Review of Literature

Journal of Pediatrics Review, 2014
Respiratory syncytial virus infection in immunocompromised patients, especially those with defects in cell mediated immunity is associated with high morbidity and mortality.
Ameneh Khatami
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Significance of Moraxella catarrhalis as a causative organism of lower respiratory tract infections

Egyptian Journal of Chest Disease and Tuberculosis, 2017
Background: Moraxella catarrhalis is an exclusively human pathogen that may be overlooked in culture because of its phenotypic similarity to commensal Neisseria. Indeed, beta lactamase producing isolates of M.
M.O. Ramadan, Ibrahim.S. Ibrahim, A.M. Shaheen, W.E. Ali   +3 more
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The natural history of respiratory syncytial virus in a birth cohort : the influence of age and previous infection on reinfection and disease [PDF]

, 2012
This study aimed to quantify the effect of age, time since last infection, and infection history on the rate of respiratory syncytial virus infection and the effect of age and infection history on the risk of respiratory syncytial virus disease.
Bottomley, C, Medley, GF, Ochola, R., Nokes, D. James, Sande, CJ, Nokes, DJ, Ochola, R, Bottomley, C., Ohuma, EO, Okiro, E. A., Medley, Graham, Sande, C. J., Cane, Patricia, Okiro, EA, Ohuma, E. O., Cane, PA   +15 more
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Principles of respiratory tract infection rational antibiotic therapy

, 2021
Continuously increasing resistance of infectious agents together with rapid decrease in the number of novel antibacterial drugs makes the rational antibiotic selection one of the important challenges facing modern medicine.
Oksana V. Fesenko
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