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Hedgehogs and Angiostrongylus cantonensis: Uncovering the Role of Atelerix albiventris in the Parasite Life Cycle

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The ongoing invasion of the zoonotic parasite Angiostrongylus cantonensis threatens humans, other mammals, and birds. In Mallorca, neurological disorders associated with this parasite are increasingly reported in free‐living Algerian hedgehogs, Atelerix algirus, raising public health concerns.
Anna Šipková, Kristýna Javorská, Lucia Anettová, Divakaran Pandian, Petr Cibulka, Jana Kačmaříková, Ladislav Novotný, David Modrý   +7 more
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Homozygosity and risk of childhood death due to invasive bacterial disease. [PDF]

, 2009
BACKGROUND: Genetic heterozygosity is increasingly being shown to be a key predictor of fitness in natural populations, both through inbreeding depression, inbred individuals having low heterozygosity, and also through chance linkage between a marker and

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Acute bacterial meningitis in Iran: Systematic review and meta-analysis

PLoS ONE, 2017
Introduction Bacterial meningitis persists in being a substantial cause of high mortality and severe neurological morbidity, despite the advances in antimicrobial therapy.
H. Houri, A. Pormohammad, S. Riahi, M. Nasiri, F. Fallah, H. Dabiri, R. Pouriran   +6 more
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Point‐Of‐Care Respiratory Diagnosis and Antibiotic Utilization in the Emergency Department: A Prospective Evaluation of Multiplex PCR

Academic Emergency Medicine, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objectives Rapid multiplex point‐of‐care (POC) PCR tests may reduce unnecessary antibiotic prescribing by quickly identifying viral etiologies in patients with acute respiratory infections (ARI). We evaluated the impact of a rapid (~15 min) multiplex PCR test on antibiotic prescribing, provider confidence, patient satisfaction, and emergency ...
Andrew C. Meltzer, Christopher Payette, Ryan Heidish, Isabella Lagunzad, Aditya Loganathan, Taylor Bolden, Michael Friedman, Matteo Pieri, William Huang, Dominic DeBritz, Nora Luck, Sean M. Lee   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

TGFβ receptor II gene deletion in leucocytes prevents cerebral vasculitis in bacterial meningitis [PDF]

, 2017
In bacterial meningitis, chemokines lead to recruitment of polymorphonuclear leucocytes (PMN) into the CNS. At the site of infection in the subarachnoid space, PMN release reactive oxygen species, reactive nitrogen intermediates (RNI) and interleukin-1β (
Bürki, Kurt, Fontana, Adriano, Koedel, Uwe, Levéen, Per, Malipiero, Ursula, Pfister, Hans-Walter, Reith, Walter   +6 more
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Severe Hyponatremia in the Emergency Department Incidence of Cerebral Edema and Risk of Osmotic Demyelination Syndrome

Academic Emergency Medicine, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Study Objective Treatment strategies in severe hyponatremia aim at rapid sodium correction to prevent or treat cerebral edema but limit sodium rise to prevent osmotic demyelination syndrome (ODS). The true risk of edema or ODS in ED patients is unknown.
Volker Burst, Ramon Rabii, Julian Peto‐Madew, Thorsten Persigehl, Stefan Haneder, Matthias Johannes Hackl, Christoph Hüser, Moritz Trappe, Sadrija Cukoski, Kathrin Möllenhoff, Victor Suárez   +10 more
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Impact of pneumococcal conjugate vaccination: a retrospective study of hospitalization for pneumonia in North-East Italy [PDF]

, 2016
Introduction. Pneumonia remains a common reason for hospitalizing infants and the elderly worldwide, and streptococcal infection is often responsible. The aim of this study was to assess the burden of pneumonia in a large general population. Methods. All
Baldo, Vincenzo, Baldovin, Tatjana, Bertoncello, Chiara, Buja, Alessandra, Clagnan, E, Cocchio, Silvia, Del Zotto, S, Furlan, Patrizia, Gallo, T, Saia, Mario   +9 more
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Invasive meningococcal disease in the Veneto region of Italy: A capture-recapture analysis for assessing the effectiveness of an integrated surveillance system [PDF]

, 2017
open8noBACKGROUND: Epidemiology of Neisseria meningitidis has been changing since the introduction of universal vaccination programmes against meningococcal serogroup C (MenC) and meningococcal serogroup B (MenB) has now become dominant.
Baldo, Vincenzo, Baldovin, Tatjana, Bertoncello, Chiara, Cocchio, Silvia, Furlan, Patrizia, Lazzari, Roberta, Russo, Francesca, Saia, Mario   +7 more
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Diagnostic Accuracy of Procalcitonin in Bacterial Meningitis Versus Nonbacterial Meningitis

Medicine, 2016
Several studies have investigated the diagnostic accuracy of procalcitonin (PCT) levels in blood or cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) in bacterial meningitis (BM), but the results were heterogeneous.The aim of the present study was to ascertain the diagnostic ...
Tingting Wei, Zhi-De Hu, B. Qin, Ning Ma, Qingqin Tang, Li-Li Wang, Lin Zhou, Ren-qian Zhong   +7 more
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Bacterial Meningitis in Childhood

, 2011
A wide variety of pathogens cause childhood meningitis and clinical features and ­outcomes vary according to the organism. Bacterial meningitis caused by Neisseria meningitidis, Streptococcus pneumoniae and Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) is of particular importance as it has a high mortality and morbidity, has been relatively common and is ...
Sadarangani, M, Pollard, A
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