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Lower Respiratory Tract Infection Trends in East and South-East Asia: In the Light of Economic and Health Care Development

Global Pediatric Health, 2021
This study explored to what degree economic development and improvement of healthcare are associated with lower respiratory tract infection (LRTI) mortality.
Jelle J. Feddema PhD, MSc, Anne M. van der Geest PhD, MSc, Eric Claassen PhD, Linda H. M. van de Burgwal PhD   +3 more
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Distribution characteristics of serum β2-microglobulin between viral and bacterial lower respiratory tract infections: a retrospective study [PDF]

PeerJ, 2020
Background Lower respiratory tract infection (LRTI) is one of the leading cause of death in children under 5 years old around the world between 1980 and 2016. Distinguishing between viral and bacterial infection is challenging when children suffered from
Xulong Cai, Qiaolan Xu, Chenrong Zhou, Li Zhou, Qijun Yong, Qing Mu, Yan Cheng, Jiena Wang, Jingjing Xie   +8 more
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Etiologies, risk factors, and antibiotic pattern of lower respiratory tract infection in patients coming to Deccan College of Medical Sciences, Hyderabad, South India [PDF]

Romanian Medical Journal
Background. Lower Respiratory Tract Infections (LRTI) impose a huge problem on society due to their tenacious and unescapable health problems, and they were the reasons for consultation and hospitalization.
Khawaja Shakeel Ahmed, Maimoona Mustafa, Danial P. Thomas   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The cost of lower respiratory tract infections hospital admissions in the Canadian Arctic [PDF]

International Journal of Circumpolar Health, 2013
Background . Inuit infants who reside in the Nunavut (NU) regions of Arctic Canada have extremely high rates of lower respiratory tract infections (LRTIs) associated with significant health expenditures, but the costs in other regions of Arctic Canada ...
Anna Banerji, Val Panzov, Joan Robinson, Michael Young, Kaspar Ng, Muhammad Mamdani   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Additional file 1 of Risk of subsequent lower respiratory tract infection (LRTI) after hospitalization for COVID-19 LRTI and non-COVID-19 LRTI: a retrospective cohort study

, 2023
Additional file 1: S Table 1. Risk categories for pneumococcal vaccination based on US Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices criteria.
Bruxvoort, Katia J., Fischer, Heidi, Lewnard, Joseph A., Hong, Vennis X., Pomichowski, Magdalena, Grant, Lindsay R., Jódar, Luis, Gessner, Bradford D., Tartof, Sara Y.   +8 more
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Guidelines for palivizumab prophylaxis in infants and young children at increased risk for respiratory syncytial virus infection in Saudi Arabia

International Journal of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, 2016
Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is a leading cause of serious seasonal lower respiratory tract infections (LRTI) in high-risk infants and children, with epidemics occurring annually in Saudi Arabia from October to March.
Fahad Al Aql, Sami Al-Hajjar, Latifa Bin Mahmoud, Saleh Al-Alaiyan, Haysam Tufenkji, Ibrahim Bin-Hussain, Sameh Abuzaid, Vetha Peter   +7 more
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Model-estimated impacts of pediatric respiratory syncytial virus prevention programs in Mali on asthma prevalence

Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: Global, 2023
Background: Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is a leading cause of lower respiratory tract infection (LRTI) in young children and is associated with subsequent recurrent wheezing illness and asthma (wheeze/asthma).
Justin R. Ortiz, MD, Rachel S. Laufer, MPH, Steven M. Brunwasser, PhD, Flanon Coulibaly, MD, Fatoumata Diallo, MD, Moussa Doumbia, MD, Amanda J. Driscoll, PhD, Deshayne B. Fell, PhD, Fadima C. Haidara, MD, Tina V. Hartert, MD, Adama M. Keita, MD, Kathleen M. Neuzil, MD, Brittney M. Snyder, PhD, Samba Sow, MD, Meagan C. Fitzpatrick, PhD   +14 more
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Moraxella catarrhalis – An underestimated culprit for community-acquired lower respiratory tract infections in diseased adult lungs

Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care
In four months, five cases of Moraxella causing lower respiratory tract infection were encountered among patients with underlying lung disease in the Pulmonary medicine outpatient department of a tertiary care center in rural West Bengal.
Mallika Sengupta, Prashant Sharma, Sudip Ghosh, Sayantan Banerjee   +3 more
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Hospitalisation of late preterm infants due to lower respiratory tract infections in Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia: incidence, disease severity, and risk factors

Acta Medica Lituanica, 2018
Background. By two years of age, almost all children experience at least one episode of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection, the most common viral cause of hospitalisation due to lower respiratory tract infection (LRTI).
Nijolė Drazdienė, Rasa Tamelienė, Daiga Kviluna, Pille Saik, Ervin Saik, Jolanta Zaikauskienė   +5 more
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The incidence of lower respiratory tract infection (lrti) on preschool children [PDF]

, 2012
Introduction: Respiratory illnesses on children are common, serious and important. Chronic respiratory disease is also the second most common reason for hospitalisation. Aim of the study: To confirme the incidence of LRTI on preschool children because
Kamcev, Nikola, Velickova, Nevenka, Panova, Gordana, Gacova, Marina   +3 more
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