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Nature Reviews Disease Primers, 2021 Pneumonia is a common acute respiratory infection that affects the alveoli and distal airways; it is a major health problem and associated with high morbidity and short-term and long-term mortality in all age groups worldwide. Pneumonia is broadly divided into community-acquired pneumonia or hospital-acquired pneumonia.
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Ventilator-associated events: From surveillance to optimizing management
Journal of Intensive Medicine, 2023 Mechanical ventilation (MV) is a life-support therapy that may predispose to morbid and lethal complications, with ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) being the most prevalent.
Sergio Ramirez-Estrada +3 more
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BMC Medicine, 2023 As new, efficacious respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) immunization products reach the market, affordable pricing as well as improved estimation of disease burden and the full potential and cost effectiveness of RSV prevention in the hardest hit ...
Padmini Srikantiah, Keith P. Klugman
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Seminars in Roentgenology, 2017 Neonatal pneumonia may occur in isolation or as one component of a larger infectious process. Bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites are all potential causes of neonatal pneumonia, and may be transmitted vertically from the mother or acquired from the postnatal environment.
Hooven, Thomas A., Polin, Richard A.
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Etiology of community-acquired pneumonia in adults: a systematic review
Pneumonia, 2020 Background The etiology of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) has evolved since the beginning of the antibiotic era. Recent guidelines encourage immediate empiric antibiotic treatment once a diagnosis of CAP is made.
Saeed Shoar, Daniel M. Musher
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Pneumonia, 2022 Background A mixed pulmonary infection of Mycobacterium bacteremicum and three different isolates of nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) is an unusual clinical manifestation and have not yet been indicated. In this case report, we reported four isolates of
Morteza Masoumi +7 more
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Klebsiella pneumoniae pneumonia
Heart & Lung, 1997 Klebsiella pneumoniae is an uncommon cause of community-acquired pneumonia except in alcoholics. Klebsiella may mimic pulmonary reactivation tuberculosis because it presents with hemoptysis and cavitating lesions. Klebsiella pneumoniae is a difficult infection to treat because of the organism's thick capsule.
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Pneumonia, 2020 Background Variation in outcomes of patients with community acquired pneumonia (CAP) has been reported in some, but not all, studies. Although some variation is expected, unwarranted variation in healthcare impacts patient outcomes and equity of care ...
H. Lawrence, W. S. Lim, T. M. McKeever
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Tuberculosis in migrants – screening, surveillance and ethics
Pneumonia, 2020 Tuberculosis (TB) is the leading infectious cause of human mortality and is responsible for nearly 2 million deaths every year. It is often regarded as a ‘silent killer’ because it predominantly affects the poor and marginalized, and disease outbreaks ...
Gabriella Scandurra +4 more
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Pneumonia, 2019 Background Although β-lactam monotherapy may be sufficient in non-critically ill patients with community-acquired pneumonia, the value of combination antibiotic regimens in community-onset neutropenic pneumonia remains unclear.
Hyeri Seok +9 more
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