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Can clinical findings at admission allow withholding of antibiotics in patients hospitalized for community acquired pneumonia when a test for a respiratory virus is positive?

open access: yesPneumonia
Background Current guidelines recommend empiric antibiotic therapy for patients who require hospitalization for community-acquired pneumonia (CAP). We sought to determine whether clinical, imaging or laboratory features in patients hospitalized for CAP ...
Ryan Ward   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

An in vitro study of the replication, morphology and DNA base composition of Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Microbiology at Massey University, New Zealand [PDF]

open access: yes, 1977
Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae can almost invariably be isolated from the lungs of sheep with chronic pneumonia, which is a prevalent disease in New Zealand hoggets.
Major, Robert Malcolm
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YKL-40 levels are associated with disease severity and prognosis of viral pneumonia, but not available in bacterial pneumonia in children

open access: yesBMC Pediatrics, 2018
Background Viral pneumonia is the main type of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) in children. YKL-40, a chitinase-like protein, is regarded as a biomarker of the degree of inflammation.
Xingge Yang, Guangyao Sheng
doaj   +1 more source

Viral Pneumonia Requiring Differentiation from Acute and Progressive Diffuse Interstitial Lung Diseases

open access: yesInternal medicine, 2019
Objective The clinical characteristics and chest imaging findings of viral pneumonia and several interstitial lung diseases (ILDs) overlap, and viral pneumonia may be underrecognized and misdiagnosed as certain ILDs.
T. Ishiguro   +8 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Predicting optimal impact interventions in the post‐HPV vaccination world

open access: yesInternational Journal of Cancer, EarlyView.
Abstract Prophylactic vaccination is a powerful tool that changes exposure to infections and associated morbidity of preventable diseases. We discuss the impact of pneumococci and human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination on the population biology of the two micro‐organisms and related public health effects.
Matti Lehtinen   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

High mortality from viral pneumonia in patients with cancer

open access: yesInfectious Diseases, 2019
Background: With the advancement of diagnostic methods, a viral infection is increasingly recognized in adult patients with pneumonia and the outcomes can be fatal especially in high-risk patients.
Youn-Jung Kim, Eu Sun Lee, Yoon-Seon Lee
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Anti‐NMDA receptor autoimmune encephalitis associated with ovarian teratoma: A case series and literature review

open access: yesInternational Journal of Gynecology &Obstetrics, Volume 169, Issue 1, Page 23-30, April 2025.
Abstract Autoimmune encephalitis is a group of disorders characterized by symptoms of dysfunction of the limbic and extra‐limbic systems that occur in association with antibodies against intracellular antigens, synapses, or proteins located on the surface of nerve cells. Anti‐NMDA (N‐methyl‐D‐aspartate) receptor encephalitis was first described in 2007
Pham Ba Nha   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Measurement of complement receptor 1 on neutrophils in bacterial and viral pneumonia

open access: yesBMC Infectious Diseases, 2006
Background A reliable prediction of the causative agent of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is not possible based on clinical features. Our aim was to test, whether the measurement of the expression of complement receptors or Fcγ receptors on ...
Nikoskelainen Jukka   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

PNEUMONIA | Viral

open access: yes, 2006
Viral infection accounts for a substantial proportion of cases of acute pneumonia especially among young children and the elderly, the immunocompromised, and those with comorbidities. Influenza A and respiratory syncytial virus are by far the most common causes of viral pneumonia followed by adenovirus, parainfluenza virus types 1, 2 and 3, and ...
Hui, D.S., Chan, P.K.S.
openaire   +1 more source

Respiratory Viral Infection-Induced Microbiome Alterations and Secondary Bacterial Pneumonia

open access: yesFrontiers in Immunology, 2018
Influenza and other respiratory viral infections are the most common type of acute respiratory infection. Viral infections predispose patients to secondary bacterial infections, which often have a more severe clinical course.
S. Hanada   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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