Impact of Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccines on Pneumonia Hospitalizations in High- and Low-Income Subpopulations in Brazil. [PDF]
, 2017 BackgroundPneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCVs) are being used worldwide. A key question is whether the impact of PCVs on pneumonia is similar in low- and high-income populations.
Kürüm, Esra +7 more
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Community Case Management of Fever Due to Malaria and Pneumonia in Children Under Five in Zambia: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial [PDF]
, 2010 In a cluster randomized trial, Kojo Yeboah-Antwi and colleagues find that integrated management of malaria and pneumonia in children under five by community health workers is both feasible and effective. BACKGROUND.
Hamainza, Busiku +12 more
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Transfer Learning with Deep Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) for Pneumonia Detection using Chest X-ray [PDF]
, 2020 Pneumonia is a life-threatening disease, which occurs in the lungs caused by either bacterial or viral infection. It can be life-endangering if not acted upon in the right time and thus an early diagnosis of pneumonia is vital.
Chowdhury, Muhammad E. H. +7 more
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IL-17 can be protective or deleterious in murine pneumococcal pneumonia [PDF]
, 2018 Streptococcus pneumoniae is the major bacterial cause of community-acquired pneumonia, and the leading agent of childhood pneumonia deaths worldwide. Nasal colonization is an essential step prior to infection.
Bayes, Hannah K. +4 more
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Acute respiratory infection as a cause of non-malarial febrile illness in African children.
Pneumonia, 2015 The replacement of “presumptive treatment for malaria” by “test before treat” strategies for the management of febrile illness is raising awareness of the importance of knowing more about the causes of illness in children who are suspected to have ...
Florida Muro, Rita Reyburn, Hugh Reyburn
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COVID-19 pneumonia: different respiratory treatments for different phenotypes?
Intensive Care Medicine, 2020 The Surviving Sepsis Campaign panel recently recom-mended that “mechanically ventilated patients with COVID-19 should be managed similarly to other patients with acute respiratory failure in the ICU [1].” Yet, COVID-19 pneumonia [2], despite falling in ...
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A pragmatic, multi-centered, stepped wedge, cluster randomized controlled trial pilot of the clinical and cost effectiveness of a complex Stroke Oral healthCare intervention pLan Evaluation II (SOCLE II) compared with usual oral healthcare in stroke wards [PDF]
, 2019 BACKGROUND: Patients with stroke-associated pneumonia experience poorer outcomes (increased hospital stays, costs, discharge dependency, and risk of death).
Bain, Brenda Jean +12 more
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Pneumonia, 2018 Background Streptococcus pneumoniae is capable of causing multiple infectious syndromes and occasionally causes outbreaks. The objective of this review is to update prior outbreak reviews, identify control measures, and comment on transmission.
Paul N. Zivich +3 more
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Prevalence of venous thromboembolism in patients with severe novel coronavirus pneumonia
Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis, 2020 Three months ago, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‐CoV‐2) broke out in Wuhan, China, and spread rapidly around the world. Severe novel coronavirus pneumonia (NCP) patients have abnormal blood coagulation function, but their venous ...
Songping Cui +4 more
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HIV infection is associated with elevated biomarkers of immune activation in Ugandan adults with pneumonia. [PDF]
, 2019 IntroductionPneumonia is an important cause of morbidity and mortality in persons living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. How immune activation differs among HIV-infected and HIV-uninfected adults with pneumonia is unknown.MethodsThe ...
Byanyima, Patrick +16 more
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