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Assessment of nasopharyngeal Streptococcus pneumoniae colonization does not permit discrimination between Canadian children with viral and bacterial respiratory infection: a matched-cohort cross-sectional study

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2021
Background Readily-available diagnostics do not reliably discriminate between viral and bacterial pediatric uncomplicated pneumonia, both of which are common.
Jeffrey M. Pernica, Kristin Inch, Haifa Alfaraidi, Ania Van Meer, Redjana Carciumaru, Kathy Luinstra, Marek Smieja   +6 more
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Immune persistence of a single dose of 23-valent pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine: A 6-year follow-up

Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics
In a previous phase 3 clinical trial, a 23-valent pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine (PPV23) induced robust immune responses in participants aged 2 years and older.
Lili Huang, Xinyi Yang, Hong Li, Zhiqiang Xie, Taotao Zhu, Wangyang You, Zeng Wang, Jiebing Tan, Guangwei Feng, Qingmin Sun, Bin Wang, Xing Han, Yanxia Wang   +12 more
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A comparison of demographic, epidemiological and clinical characteristics of hospital influenza-related viral pneumonia patients

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2021
Background Through the comparison of the demographic, epidemiological, and clinical characteristics of hospital human influenza (influenza A (H1N1) pdm09, H3N2, and B)-related and hospitalized avian-origin influenza A (H7N9)-related viral pneumonia ...
Bin Fu, Zhengjie Wu, Lingtong Huang, Zhaohui Chai, Peidong Zheng, Qinmiao Sun, Silan Gu, Qiaomai Xu, Haiting Feng, Lingling Tang   +9 more
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Female resistance to pneumonia identifies lung macrophage nitric oxide synthase-3 as a therapeutic target

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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What Does it Mean When a Child is Diagnosed with Pneumonia?

Pediatric Respirology and Critical Care Medicine, 2019
Pneumonia is a frequent diagnosis without adequate consideration of the etiology. Pneumonia implies the presence of inflammation of the lung parenchyma with consolidation. That inflammation may be from infectious or noninfectious causes.
Miles Weinberger
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Clinical and Etiological Features of Community-acquired Pneumonia in Children in Vladivostok

Детские инфекции (Москва), 2015
A survey of 991 with community-acquired pneumonia. The disease is most proceeded in the average severity (97.2 %). In 99.4 % of cases diagnosed focal, polysegmental pneumonia in 0.6% of cases.
L. G. Erokhina, O. G. Savina, T. O. Svirinkova, M. A. Terpugova   +3 more
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Neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio as a point-of-care marker for predicting bacterial etiology in pediatric community-acquired Pneumonia: A comparative analysis with C -reactive protein

Clinical Epidemiology and Global Health
Objectives: To evaluate the role of NLR in predicting bacterial etiology in pediatric community acquired pneumonia and compare its diagnostic performance with CRP.
Maya Lakshmanan, Sandeep Kumar, Sowmya Shashidhara, Pushpa Kini, Shrikiran Aroor, Suneel Mundkur, Ramesh Bhat Y, Karen Moras   +7 more
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A STUDY ON CAPRINE PNEUMONIA IN IRAQI LOCAL GOATS ETIOLOGICAL FINDINGS

The Iraqi Journal of Veterinary Medicine, 1989
In a study designed to evaluate the prevalence of caprine pneumonia and to identify it's bacterial and parasitic causes, 100 lungs with pneumonic lesions were collected. The prevalence rate was 12.5%. The most commonly associated bacterial isolates with
K. H. Al-Joboury , A. M. Al-Darraji
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Antibiotic therapy for bacterial pneumonia

Journal of Pharmaceutical Health Care and Sciences
Pneumonia is a common infection in patients of all ages. Determining its etiology and selecting antibiotic therapy are challenging for physicians in both private practice and hospitals.
Hideo Kato
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Performance of serum procalcitonin for diagnosing bacterial pneumonia in patients with chronic interstitial lung disease

Egyptian Journal of Chest Disease and Tuberculosis, 2020
Introduction Acute deterioration in a patient with chronic interstitial lung disease (ILD) may be owing to different causes like pneumonia and exacerbation of the underlying ILD.
Eman Shebl, Hanaa A Moety
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