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Nature Reviews Disease Primers, 2021 Pneumonia is a common acute respiratory infection that affects the alveoli and distal airways; it is a major health problem and associated with high morbidity and short-term and long-term mortality in all age groups worldwide. Pneumonia is broadly divided into community-acquired pneumonia or hospital-acquired pneumonia.
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Ventilator-associated events: From surveillance to optimizing management
Journal of Intensive Medicine, 2023 Mechanical ventilation (MV) is a life-support therapy that may predispose to morbid and lethal complications, with ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) being the most prevalent.
Sergio Ramirez-Estrada +3 more
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BMC Medicine, 2023 As new, efficacious respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) immunization products reach the market, affordable pricing as well as improved estimation of disease burden and the full potential and cost effectiveness of RSV prevention in the hardest hit ...
Padmini Srikantiah, Keith P. Klugman
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Seminars in Fetal and Neonatal Medicine, 2017 Neonatal pneumonia may occur in isolation or as one component of a larger infectious process. Bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites are all potential causes of neonatal pneumonia, and may be transmitted vertically from the mother or acquired from the postnatal environment.
Hooven, Thomas A., Polin, Richard A.
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Candida species in community-acquired pneumonia in patients with chronic aspiration
Pneumonia, 2021 Background When Candida species is found in a sputum culture, clinicians generally dismiss it as a contaminant. We sought to identify cases of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) in which Candida might play a contributory etiologic role.
Benjamin J. Moss, Daniel M. Musher
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Incidence of pneumococcal disease from 2003 to 2019 in children ≤17 years in England
Pneumonia, 2023 Background Pneumococcal disease is a leading cause of communicable disease morbidity and mortality globally. We aimed to estimate invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD), pneumococcal pneumonia (PP) and all-cause pneumonia (ACP) incidence rates (IRs) in ...
Salini Mohanty +6 more
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Pneumonia, Aspiration Pneumonia, or Frailty-Associated Pneumonia?
Geriatrics, 2022 Pneumonia is a common reason for admission afflicting frail older adults. Those who are the frailest are more likely to be provided with a diagnosis of aspiration pneumonia. This diagnosis has no clear definition and no clinical consensus. It is therefore time to stop attempting to differentiate between pneumonia type and use the term frailty ...
David G. Smithard, Yuki Yoshimatsu
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Pediatrics In Review, 2008 By nearly any criteria, pneumonia (infection of the pulmonary parenchyma) must be considered one of the most important categories of disease affecting the respiratory system. This chapter is organized primarily as a general discussion of the clinical problem of pneumonia.
Weinberger, Steven E. +2 more
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Pneumonia, 2022 Background Pneumonia is an acute respiratory infection of the lungs. A child dies of pneumonia every 39 s globally. Even though pneumonia affects children worldwide, the risk and repercussions of the disease are more prevalent in poor and middle-income ...
Tsega-Ab Abebaw +2 more
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Pneumonia, 2023 Pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCVs) provide protection against vaccine-type pneumococcal disease in both children and adults. Growing evidence suggests that PCVs also reduce pneumonia and lower respiratory tract infections (LRTIs) more broadly ...
Eileen M. Dunne +4 more
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