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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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Retrospective Analysis of 61 Cases of Children Died of Viral Pneumonia [PDF]

Fayixue Zazhi, 2020
Objective To retrospectively analyze the forensic pathological postmortem examination and clinical data of children who died of viral pneumonia in identification of cause of death cases and to discuss the clinical characteristics and pathological ...
CHEN Xue-bing, DU Si-hao, LU Jian-cong, et al
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Is Higher Viral Load in the Upper Respiratory Tract Associated With Severe Pneumonia? Findings From the PERCH Study. [PDF]

, 2017
BACKGROUND.: The etiologic inference of identifying a pathogen in the upper respiratory tract (URT) of children with pneumonia is unclear. To determine if viral load could provide evidence of causality of pneumonia, we compared viral load in the URT of ...
Adrian, Peter V, Antonio, Martin, Awori, Juliet O, Baggett, Henry C, Baillie, Vicky L, Brooks, W Abdullah, Deloria Knoll, Maria, DeLuca, Andrea N, Driscoll, Amanda J, Ebruke, Bernard E, Feikin, Daniel R, Fu, Wei, Goswami, Doli, Hammitt, Laura L, Higdon, Melissa M, Howie, Stephen RC, Karron, Ruth A, Kotloff, Karen L, Levine, Orin S, Li, Mengying, Madhi, Shabir A, Morpeth, Susan C, Murdoch, David R, Mwaba, John, Mwansa, James, O' Brien, Katherine L, Park, Daniel E, PERCH Study Group, Prosperi, Christine, Sawatwong, Pongpun, Scott, J Anthony G, Shi, Qiyuan, Sow, Samba O, Tapia, Milagritos D, Thea, Donald M, Whistler, Toni, Zaman, Khalequ, Zeger, Scott L   +37 more
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Coronavirus Disease 2019 ICU Patients Have Higher-Than-Expected Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation–Adjusted Mortality and Length of Stay Than Viral Pneumonia ICU Patients

Critical Care Medicine, 2021
Supplemental Digital Content is available in the text. OBJECTIVES: To compare Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation-IV–adjusted mortality and length of stay outcomes of adult ICU patients who tested positive for coronavirus disease 2019 with ...
T. Higgins, Maureen M. Stark, K. Henson, Laura Freeseman-Freeman   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Lung Ultrasound and Neutrophil Lymphocyte Ratio in Early Diagnosis and Differentiation between Viral and Bacterial Pneumonia in Young Children

Children, 2022
Lung ultrasound (LUS) is a crucial diagnostic tool for identifying pneumonia in the pediatric age group. However, it plays a limited role in the early distinction between viral and bacterial pneumonia in children.
Ahmed Omran, Heba Awad, Mostafa Ibrahim, Sonya El-Sharkawy, Samar Elfiky, Ahmed R. Rezk   +5 more
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Ultra-low-dose chest CT performance for the detection of viral pneumonia patterns during the COVID-19 outbreak period: a monocentric experience.

Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery, 2021
Background Ultra low dose chest computed tomography (CT) acquisitions have been used for selected emergency room patients with acute dyspnea or minor thoracic trauma. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the diagnostic performance of ultra-low-dose (
J. Greffier, Adel Hoballah, A. Sadate, Fabien de Oliveira, P. Claret, H. De forges, P. Loubet, J. Mauboussin, A. Hamard, J. Beregi, J. Frandon   +10 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Immunopathological Changes in SARS-CoV-2 Critical and Non-critical Pneumonia Patients: A Systematic Review to Determine the Cause of Co-infection

Frontiers in Public Health, 2021
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic originating from Wuhan, China is causing major fatalities across the world. Viral pneumonia is commonly observed in COVID-19 pandemic.
Saikat Samadder
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The frequency and character of community-acquired pneumonia comparison before and during the COVID-19 epidemic in the multi-specialty hospital [PDF]

Digital Diagnostics, 2020
BACKGROUND:The 2019 coronavirus disease outbreak (COVID-19) quickly swept the world in just a month. Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is used in the diagnosis of this disease, but this test has limitations related to false negative results, as well as PCR
Stepan A. Yaremenko, Natalia A. Rucheva, Kirill N. Zhuravlev, Valentin E. Sinitsyn   +3 more
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Bacterial and viral co-infections in patients with severe SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia admitted to a French ICU

Annals of Intensive Care, 2020
Background Data on the prevalence of bacterial and viral co-infections among patients admitted to the ICU for acute respiratory failure related to SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia are lacking. We aimed to assess the rate of bacterial and viral co-infections, as well

semanticscholar   +1 more source

Health disparities in chronic liver disease

Hepatology, EarlyView., 2022
Abstract The syndemic of hazardous alcohol consumption, opioid use, and obesity has led to important changes in liver disease epidemiology that have exacerbated health disparities. Health disparities occur when plausibly avoidable health differences are experienced by socially disadvantaged populations.
Ani Kardashian, Marina Serper, Norah Terrault, Lauren D. Nephew   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source