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Transfer Learning with Deep Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) for Pneumonia Detection Using Chest X-ray [PDF]

Applied Sciences, 2020
Pneumonia is a life-threatening disease, which occurs in the lungs caused by either bacterial or viral infection. It can be life-endangering if not acted upon at the right time and thus the early diagnosis of pneumonia is vital.
Tawsifur Rahman, Muhammad E. H. Chowdhury, Amith Khandakar, Khandaker R. Islam, Khandaker F. Islam, Zaid B. Mahbub, Muhammad A. Kadir, Saad Kashem   +7 more
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Female resistance to pneumonia identifies lung macrophage nitric oxide synthase-3 as a therapeutic target [PDF]

eLife, 2014
To identify new approaches to enhance innate immunity to bacterial pneumonia, we investigated the natural experiment of gender differences in resistance to infections.
Zhiping Yang, Yuh-Chin T Huang, Henry Koziel, Rini de Crom, Hartmut Ruetten, Paulus Wohlfart, Reimar W Thomsen, Johnny A Kahlert, Henrik Toft Sørensen, Szczepan Jozefowski, Amy Colby, Lester Kobzik   +11 more
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BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA;

The Professional Medical Journal, 2019
Objectives: To assess the correlation between laboratory markers (C Reactive Protein, White Blood Cells) and treatment failure with Oral Amoxicillin in Bacterial Pneumonia in children aged 2-59 months old at Pediatrics Emergency Department LUMHS Hyderabad. Study Design: Cross sectional study.
Yasmin Memon, Zubair Memon, Saleem Shaikh, Salma Shaikh, Muhammad Nadeem Chohan   +4 more
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Clinical characteristics and predictive models for hospitalized patients with COVID-19 combined with bacterial pneumonia. [PDF]

PLoS ONE
BackgroundThis study aimed to analyze the clinical characteristics of hospitalized patients with COVID-19 combined with bacterial pneumonia and establish a predictive model to assist clinicians in the differential diagnosis and evaluation of the ...
Man Yuan, Mei Liang, Jian Xu, Da He, Yanfang Zhang, Xiaoran Li, Jinzhi He, Yang Yang, Zhiyong Zong, Junyan Qu   +9 more
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Characterization and Comparison of 2 Distinct Epidemic Community-Associated Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Clones of ST59 Lineage. [PDF]

, 2013
Sequence type (ST) 59 is an epidemic lineage of community-associated (CA) methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) isolates. Taiwanese CA-MRSA isolates belong to ST59 and can be grouped into 2 distinct clones, a virulent Taiwan clone and a ...
A Bera, A Holmes, AE Fossum, AM Milstone, B Loffler, BA Diep, BE Gonzalez, BE Gonzalez, C Goerke, C Weidenmaier, Chih-Jung Chen, CJ Chen, CJ Chen, CJ Chen, CJ Chen, CJC de Haas, Clemens Unger, CP Montgomery, dS Aires, FC Tenover, FJ Chen, Friedrich Götz, GM Pupo, GW Coombs, J Bubeck Wardenburg, J Bubeck Wardenburg, J Kaneko, JM Voyich, Jodi A. Lindsay, K Georgiades, KB Kiser, LY Hsu, M Labandeira-Rey, M Otto, MR Mulvey, MZ David, N Zetola, Paul J. Planet, PE Fournier, PL Ho, R Wang, S Herbert, SHM Rooijakkers, SL Kaplan, T Jin, T Jin, V Merhej, WJ Wannet, WJB van Wamel, Wolfgang Hoffmann, Y Gillet, YC Huang, YC Huang, YC Huang, YC Huang, Yhu-Chering Huang   +55 more
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Prokineticin 2 promotes macrophages-mediated antibacterial host defense against bacterial pneumonia

International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2022
: Objectives: Bacterial pneumonia is a common serious infectious disease with high morbidity and mortality. Prokineticin 2 (PK2) has recently been identified as a novel immunomodulator in a variety of diseases; however, its role in bacterial pneumonia ...
Qianqian Tu, Xiaoyan Yu, Wei Xie, Yetao Luo, Hong Tang, Kai Chen, Yanting Ruan, Yue Li, Jie Zhou, Yibing Yin, Dapeng Chen, Zhixin Song   +11 more
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Lung abscess due to Streptococcus intermedius associated with SARS CoV‐2 infection in pregnancy: Unusual presentation and complication of a commensal bacteria during pregnancy

Clinical Case Reports, 2023
Streptococcus intermedius is a commensal bacterium reported in a few cases as the causative agent of brain and lung abscesses, pneumonia, and endocarditis. Lung abscesses due to Streptococcus intermedius are rare, especially in pregnancy. We describe the
Cristian Orlando Porras Bueno, Sharon Julieth González Trillos, Diana Jimena Cano Rosales, Edgar Augusto Bernal García   +3 more
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Adherence to guidelines on the use of amoxicillin for treatment of ambulatory pneumonia in children younger than 5 years, Colombia, 2017–2019

Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública, 2023
Objectives. To determine the level of adherence to clinical guidelines in prescribing amoxicillin to children younger than 5 years with pneumonia in outpatient settings in Colombia from 2017 to 2019, and assess the factors associated with adherence ...
Luisa Moyano Ariza, Brindis Ochoa, Hemant D. Shewade, Jeffrey K. Edwards, Julián Trujillo Trujillo, Claudia M. Cuellar, Jaime Rodríguez, Katrina Hann, Mauro Sanchez   +8 more
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Prevalence of bacterial pneumonia among HIV-Seropositive patients in East Africa: Review

Cogent Medicine, 2021
Bacterial pneumonia is a significant cause of morbidity and mortality among the HIV-seropositive patients still in the era of combination Antiretroviral Therapy. The actual burden of bacterial pneumonia in HIV-seropositive patients is not well documented
Kindu Alem
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Metagenomic identification of pathogenic bacteria for pneumonia from postmortem lung tissue

Human Pathology Reports, 2022
Pathologists have been concerned about the validity of bacterial cultures from lung tissue for the postmortem identification of pneumonia-associated pathogens. Therefore, we studied whether pathogenic bacteria that cause pneumonia could be identified via
Hidenori Yoshizawa, Daisuke Motooka, Shota Nakamura, Ken-ichi Yoshida   +3 more
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