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When is pneumonia not pneumonia? [PDF]
BMJ Case Reports, 2015 A 34-year-old man was admitted to hospital via the accident and emergency department with severe right-sided abdominal pain and raised inflammatory markers. His pain settled with analgaesia and he was discharged with a course of oral co-amoxiclav. He was readmitted to the hospital 7 days later reporting cough and shortness of breath.
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Q fever outbreak in the terraced vineyards of Lavaux, Switzerland
New Microbes and New Infections, EarlyView., 2014 Abstract Coxiella burnetii infection (Q fever) is a widespread zoonosis with low endemicity in Switzerland, therefore no mandatory public report was required. A cluster of initially ten human cases of acute Q fever infections characterized by prolonged fever, asthenia and mild hepatitis occurred in 2012 in the terraced vineyard of Lavaux ...
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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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Community acquired paediatric pneumonia; experience from a pneumococcal vaccine- naive population
Pneumonia, 2020 Background Childhood pneumonia continues to be a disease that causes severe morbidity and mortality among children mainly in South-East Asia and Africa though it is not so in the developed world. Pneumonia accounts for 16% of all deaths of children under
Sanath Thushara Kudagammana +3 more
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Improving performance of CNN to predict likelihood of COVID-19 using chest X-ray images with preprocessing algorithms [PDF]
International Journal of Medical Informatics, 104284. 23 Sep. 2020, 2020 As the rapid spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) worldwide, chest X-ray radiography has also been used to detect COVID-19 infected pneumonia and assess its severity or monitor its prognosis in the hospitals due to its low cost, low radiation dose, and wide accessibility.
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The History of Mycoplasma pneumoniae Pneumonia [PDF]
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2016 In the United States in the 1930s, although the pathogen was not known, atypical pneumonia was clinically distinguished from pneumococcal pneumonia by its resistance to sulfonamides. Reimann (1938) reported seven patients with an unusual form of tracheo bronchopneumonia and severe constitutional symptoms.
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CXR-Net: An Encoder-Decoder-Encoder Multitask Deep Neural Network for Explainable and Accurate Diagnosis of COVID-19 pneumonia with Chest X-ray Images [PDF]
, 2021 Accurate and rapid detection of COVID-19 pneumonia is crucial for optimal patient treatment. Chest X-Ray (CXR) is the first line imaging test for COVID-19 pneumonia diagnosis as it is fast, cheap and easily accessible. Inspired by the success of deep learning (DL) in computer vision, many DL-models have been proposed to detect COVID-19 pneumonia using ...
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Pneumonia, 2017 Background Patients with recurrent respiratory tract infections and an impaired response to pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccination are diagnosed with a specific antibody deficiency.
Diana van Kessel +6 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 ...
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