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Clinical and laboratory features of viral lower respiratory tract infections in children
Purpose: to give a comparative characteristic of the clinical and laboratory manifestations of viral lower respiratory tract infections of various etiologies.Object and methods: Medical information of 385 patients, who were hospitalized in the clinic of ...
E. D. Orlova+4 more
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Cardiovascular outcomes following a respiratory tract infection among adults with non-CF bronchiectasis: a general population based study [PDF]
Rationale: Studies suggest that people with bronchiectasis are at increased risk of cardiovascular co-morbidities. Objectives: We aimed to quantify the relative risk of incident cardiovascular events following a respiratory tract infection amongst ...
Douglas, Ian+5 more
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The Microbiome and the Respiratory Tract [PDF]
Although the notion that “the normal lung is free from bacteria” remains common in textbooks, it is virtually always stated without citation or argument. The lungs are constantly exposed to diverse communities of microbes from the oropharynx and other sources, and over the past decade, novel culture-independent techniques of microbial identification ...
Fernando J. Martinez+3 more
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Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) is the pathogenic agent of tuberculosis (TB). Intracellular survival plays a central role in the pathogenesis of Mtb in a manner that is dependent on an array of transcriptional regulators for Mtb.
Hui Wang+8 more
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Goal of the study: to study the bacterial population in the respiratory tract at various levels in those suffering from pulmonary malicious tumors including patients with concurrent chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).Materials and methods ...
A. N. Zhakot+5 more
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Similar to those in the upper respiratory tract, there are microbes present in the healthy human lower respiratory tract (LRT), including the lungs and bronchus.
Jinghua Cui+12 more
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Importance of site of infection and antibiotic selection in the treatment of carbapenem-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa sepsis [PDF]
In a retrospective analysis of 215 patients with carbapenem-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa sepsis, we observed a significantly higher risk of mortality associated with respiratory tract infection (risk ratio [RR], 1.20; 95 ...
Britt, Nicholas S+6 more
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Roles of Lipolytic enzymes in Mycobacterium tuberculosis pathogenesis
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) is a bacterial pathogen that can endure for long periods in an infected patient, without causing disease. There are a number of virulence factors that increase its ability to invade the host.
Hong Lin+7 more
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Acute respiratory infections remain one of the most pressing health issues in our society, they form a high fraction of all infectious disease cases, and they pose a high risk of complications, among others these can affect upper respiratory tract (acute
E. F. Glushkova, T. N. Surovenko
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Daily low-dose prednisolone to prevent relapse of steroid-sensitive nephrotic syndrome in children with an upper respiratory tract infection:PREDNOS2 RCT [PDF]
BACKGROUND: Most children with steroid-sensitive nephrotic syndrome have relapses that are triggered by upper respiratory tract infections. Four small trials, mostly in children already taking maintenance corticosteroid in countries of different upper ...
Afentou, Nafsika+20 more
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