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Review on Pneumococcal Infection in Children [PDF]

Cureus, 2021
Childhood pneumococcal infection is a growing concern among paediatricians especially, in countries where there is no routine vaccination program against Streptococcal pneumoniae. The disease is associated with significant morbidity and mortality in young children particularly those who are under the age of two years.
Kavinda Dayasiri, Vijayakumary Thadchanamoorthy   +1 more
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No temporal association between influenza outbreaks and invasive pneumococcal infections [PDF]

, 2008
Objective: To assess whether the influenza peak in populations precedes the annual peak for invasive pneumococcal infections (IPI) in winter.Design: Ecological study.
Arenz, Stephan, Heininger, Ulrich, Kries, Wolfram and Weigl, Toschke, Andre Michael   +3 more
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Coinfection of Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensis and Streptococcus pneumoniae in multiple cutaneous lesions [PDF]

, 2016
Key learning points Cutaneous leishmaniasis is the most common clinical disease caused by all the Leishmania species that are pathogenic to humans. Other bacterial coinfections of Leishmania lesions have been described, but this is the first report of ...
Chiapello, Laura Silvina, Cortes, Paulo R., De Petris, Carlos, Dib, David, Echenique, Jose Ricardo, Herrero, Mónica V., Nuncira, Carmen T.   +6 more
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The Health Professional’s View on the Inclusion of Age in the Recommendations for Pneumococcal Vaccination: Results of a Cross-Sectional Survey in France

Geriatrics, 2021
Elderly people are at high risk for pneumococcal infections. However, older age is not an eligibility factor for pneumococcal vaccination in France. Adults with certain co-morbidities or immunocompromised states are eligible for vaccination, which leaves
Gaëlle Farge, Benoît de Wazières, Jocelyn Raude, Clémence Delavelle, Fabienne Humbert, Cécile Janssen   +5 more
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Invasive bacterial infections in Gambians with sickle cell anaemia in an era of widespread Pneumococcal and Haemophilus influenzae type B vaccination [PDF]

, 2016
Background: There is relatively little data on the aetiology of bacterial infections in patients with sickle cell anaemia (SCA) in West Africa, and no data from countries that have implemented conjugate vaccines against both Streptococcus pneumoniae and ...
Anderson, ST, Bah, G, Cunnington, A, Darboe, S, Lawal, B, Soothill, G   +5 more
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In vivo Neutralization of Pro-inflammatory Cytokines During Secondary Streptococcus pneumoniae Infection Post Influenza A Virus Infection [PDF]

, 2019
An overt pro-inflammatory immune response is a key factor contributing to lethal pneumococcal infection in an influenza pre-infected host and represents a potential target for therapeutic intervention.
Boehme, Julia D., Bruder, Dunja, Christen, Henrike, Guzmán, Carlos A., Hernandez-Vargas, Esteban A., Kershaw, Olivia, Schreiber, Jens, Sharma-Chawla, Niharika, Stegemann-Koniszewski, Sabine   +8 more
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Pneumonia: Regional experience with prevention programs [PDF]

Терапевтический архив, 2016
Aim. To generalize the regional experience in implementing a package of organizational and methodical and antiepidemic measures for preventing pneumococcal infections. Materials and methods.
A G Chuchalin, G G Onishchenko, V P Kolosov, O P Kurganova, N L Tezikov, L G Manakov, M P Gulevich, Yu M Perelman   +7 more
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The Roles of Transient Receptor Potential Vanilloid 1 and 4 in Pneumococcal Nasal Colonization and Subsequent Development of Invasive Disease

Frontiers in Immunology, 2021
Transient receptor potential (TRP) channels, neuronal stimulations widely known to be associated with thermal responses, pain induction, and osmoregulation, have been shown in recent studies to have underlying mechanisms associated with inflammatory ...
Masamitsu Kono, Denisa Nanushaj, Hideki Sakatani, Daichi Murakami, Masayoshi Hijiya, Tetsuya Kinoshita, Tatsuya Shiga, Fumie Kaneko, Keisuke Enomoto, Gen Sugita, Masayasu Miyajima, Yuka Okada, Shizuya Saika, Muneki Hotomi   +13 more
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Risk modelling the mortality impact of antimicrobial resistance in secondary pneumococcal pneumonia infections during the 2009 influenza pandemic

International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2019
Objectives: The aim of this study was to estimate the impact of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in secondary pneumococcal pneumonia infections on global mortality during the 2009 influenza pandemic, to estimate future pandemic mortality risk and to inform
Carrie E. Barnes, C. Raina MacIntyre
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Epidemiology of invasive pneumococcal infections: manifestations, incidence and case fatality rate correlated to age, gender and risk factors

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2016
BackgroundIncidence, manifestations and case-fatality rate (CFR) of invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) vary with age and comorbidities. New vaccines, changing age distribution, prolonged survival among immunocompromised patients and improved sepsis ...
E. Backhaus, S. Berg, R. Andersson, Gunilla Ockborn, Petter Malmström, Mats S. Dahl, S. Nasic, B. Trollfors   +7 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source