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Incidence of Invasive Group A Streptococcal Infections and Comparison of emm Types from Carriage, Pharyngitis, and Invasive Infections in Indigenous Communities in the Southwest United States

Proceedings
Background: Indigenous communities are disproportionately affected by group A Streptococcus (GAS) infections [...]
Catherine G. Sutcliffe, Victoria M. Sergent, Joyselynn Pitalua, Sopio Chochua, Christopher J. Gregory, Chloe Hurley, Zhongya Li, Saundra Mathis, Lesley McGee, Jennifer Onukwube Okaro, Theresa Tran, Robert Weatherholtz, Laura L. Hammitt   +12 more
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Systematic review and meta-analysis on the etiology of bacterial pneumonia in children in sub-Saharan Africa

Journal of Public Health in Africa, 2022
Introduction. Before the introduction of vaccination to protect children from pneumonia, Streptococcus pneumoniae and Haemophilus influenzae type B (HiB) were the most frequent aetiological agents causing bacterial pneumonia in children under five years ...
Chukwuemeka Onwuchekwa, Bassey Edem, Victor Williams, Ibiloye Olujuwon, Musa Jallow, Binta Sanyang, Kristien Verdonck   +6 more
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ANTIBIOTIC STEWARDSHIP STRATEGIES TO LIMIT INAPPROPRIATE ANTIBIOTIC USE AND REDUCE MULTI-DRUG RESISTANT PATHOGENS DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC

International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2023
Antibiotics have been extensively used in COVID-19 patients without a clear indication. COVID-19 pneumonia is associated with a mortality up to 20% varying by country with the number of global deaths over 5 million. Antibiotics have been extensively used
Anucha Apisarnthanarak
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C-reactive Protein Versus Neutrophil/lymphocyte Ratio in Differentiating Bacterial and Non-bacterial Pneumonia in Children

Journal of Nepal Health Research Council, 2017
Background: Pneumonia is a leading cause of childhood mortality in a low resource country. Simple laboratory markers can help differentiate between bacterial and non-bacterial pneumonias for appropriate management.
Eva Gauchan, Sudhir Adhikari
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Comparison of Short- versus Long-Course Antimicrobial Therapy of Uncomplicated Bacterial Pneumonia in Dogs: A Double-Blinded, Placebo-Controlled Pilot Study

Animals, 2021
Current treatment for canine bacterial pneumonia relies on protracted courses of antimicrobials (3–6 weeks or more) with recommendations to continue for 1–2 weeks past resolution of all clinical and thoracic radiographic abnormalities. However, in humans,
Aida I. Vientós-Plotts, Isabelle Masseau, Carol R. Reinero   +2 more
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Fungal pneumonia concealing bacterial pneumonia: a diagnostic dilemma

Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease, 2023
We describe the case of a 61-year-old diabetic man affected by Achromobacter denitrificans. He was immunocompetent and did not have any past history of chronic lung disease.
Christie George Joseph, Madhusmita Mohanty Mohapatra, Manju Rajaram, Jayabharathi Palanivel, Balasubramanian Velappan   +4 more
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Accuracy of the diagnosis of pneumonia in Canadian pediatric emergency departments: A prospective cohort study.

PLoS ONE
BackgroundThe diagnosis of pediatric pneumonia and determination of the likely pathogen are complicated as the clinical picture overlaps with other respiratory illnesses, interpretation of radiographs is subjective, and laboratory results are rarely ...
Joan L Robinson, James D Kellner, Jennifer Crotts, Gabino Travassos, Guanmin Chen, Valerie G Kirk, Martin Pusic, Martin Reed, Sarah Reid, Michael Weinstein, Ravi Bhargava, Maala Bhatt, Kathy Boutis, Sarah Curtis, Serge Gouin, Tim Lynch, Richard van Wylick, David W Johnson   +17 more
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HIV-Associated Bacterial Pneumonia [PDF]

Clinics in Chest Medicine, 2013
Community-acquired bacterial pneumonia (CAP) remains one of the most common opportunistic infections in patients who are infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). The risk of CAP increases as the CD4 cell count decreases. The common bacterial pathogens that cause CAP in HIV-infected persons are similar to those in HIV-uninfected individuals,
Feldman, Charles, Anderson, Ronald
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Expression and significance of serum vitamin D and LL-37 levels in infants with bacterial pneumonia

Frontiers in Pediatrics, 2022
ObjectiveTo investigate the significance of vitamin D and human antimicrobial peptide LL-37 in the occurrence and development of bacterial pneumonia in infants.MethodsFrom January 2021 to January 2022, 80 infants with bacterial pneumonia were selected ...
Shaojie Zhao, Shaojie Zhao, Yixiu He, Menglan Pan, Bingzhang Chen, Siqi Zhang, Yufeng Zhang, Yafei Zhu   +7 more
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Caracterización de pacientes con bronconeumonía bacteriana asociada a la ventilación artificial mecánica

Revista Electrónica Dr. Zoilo E. Marinello Vidaurreta, 2015
Fundamento: las neumonías nosocomiales constituyen hoy en día un problema de salud a nivel mundial. En las unidades de cuidados intensivos de las instituciones hospitalarias ingresa un elevado número de pacientes que requieren ventilación artificial ...
Danilo Eranio Utra Cardoso, Leonila Atencio González, Aida Esther Leyva Peña, Gladis Marrero Ávila, Idalia Arcias Castillo   +4 more
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