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St. Luke's Medical Center: Bottom-Up Approach to Quality Improvement in Pneumonia Care [PDF]
, 2009 Highlights strategies for improving pneumonia care, including frontline staff leadership, reassigning responsibilities, ongoing nursing staff education, and the use of evidence-based best practices, concurrent review, and streamlined standing order ...
Aimee Lashbrook
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Indirect effect of 7-valent and 13-valent pneumococcal conjugated vaccines on pneumococcal pneumonia hospitalizations in elderly [PDF]
, 2018 Background: Pneumonia is one of the leading causes of mortality and has a high burden in morbidity. In Portugal, 7-valent pneumococcal conjugated vaccine (PCV) was used since 2001 and PCV10/13 since 2009, being the last introduced into the National ...
Froes, Filipe +6 more
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Journal of Medical Virology, Volume 98, Issue 2, February 2026.ABSTRACT Human metapneumovirus (hMPV) causes mild and self‐limiting disease in adults. However, the risk factors for serious adverse outcomes following hMPV infection in adult patients without preexisting chronic airway diseases remain poorly understood.
Wang Chun Kwok +8 more
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Journal of Medical Virology, Volume 98, Issue 2, February 2026.ABSTRACT HTLV‐1 infection is a chronic condition associated with the development of malignancies, inflammatory, and neurological disorders. In this study, the causes of hospitalization and mortality were assessed in a cohort of 508 individuals living with HTLV‐1 followed over a 30‐year period. Overall mortality was 8.5% in this population and increased
Elizabeth Souza Neves +10 more
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Epithelial cell–derived secreted and transmembrane 1a signals to activated neutrophils during pneumococcal pneumonia [PDF]
, 2016 Airway epithelial cell responses are critical to the outcome of lung infection. In this study, we aimed to identify unique contributions of epithelial cells during lung infection.
Belkina, Anna C. +12 more
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Overlapping functionality of the Pht proteins in zinc homeostasis of streptococcus pneumoniae [PDF]
, 2014 Streptococcus pneumoniae is a globally significant pathogen that causes a range of diseases, including pneumonia, sepsis, meningitis, and otitis media. Its ability to cause disease depends upon the acquisition of nutrients from its environment, including
Eijkelkamp, Bart A. +5 more
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The Turkish Journal of Pediatrics, 1998 Fulminating pneumococcal septicemia without an obvious focus of infection is very rare in previously immunocompetent children older than two years. Furthermore, pneumatocele formation in pneumococcal pneumonia is uncommon.
Y Aslan +4 more
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Are the pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccines effective? Meta-analysis of the prospective trials
BMC Family Practice, 2000 The objective was to review the evidence of effectiveness of the polyvalent polysaccharide pneumococcal vaccine from prospective properly randomised controlled trials comparing pneumococcal vaccines with placebo in subjects who are immunocompetent and ...
Lipsky Benjamin A +2 more
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The impact of childhood pneumococcal vaccination on hospital admissions in England : a whole population observational study [PDF]
, 2019 Background Pneumococcal infections are major causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide. We use routine hospital admissions data and time-series modelling analysis to estimate the impact of the seven and thirteen valent pneumococcal conjugate ...
McCarthy, Noel D. +2 more
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PLoS Medicine, 2015 BackgroundThe importance of bacterial infections following respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) remains unclear. We evaluated whether variations in RSV epidemic timing and magnitude are associated with variations in pneumococcal disease epidemics and ...
Daniel M Weinberger +4 more
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