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Upper Respiratory Tract Infections

Pediatrics In Review, 2015
The upper respiratory system includes the nose, nasal cavity, pharynx, and larynx with subglottic area of trachea. In the normal circumstances, air enters the respiratory system through nostrils where it is filtered, humidified and warmed inside the nasal cavity.
Tekavec Trkanjec, Jasna, Peroš-Golubičić, Tatjana   +1 more
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Lower Respiratory Tract Infections

Pediatric Clinics of North America, 2009
Acute lower respiratory infections (ALRI) are the major cause of morbidity and mortality in young children worldwide. ALRIs are important indicators of the health disparities that persist between Indigenous and non-Indigenous children in developed countries. Bronchiolitis and pneumonia account for the majority of the ALRI burden.
Chang, Anne B., Chang, Christina C., O'Grady, K., Torzillo, P. J.   +3 more
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Respiratory tract infections in the immunocompromised

Current Opinion in Pulmonary Medicine, 2013
Pulmonary infections are particularly common in the immunosuppressed host. This review discusses emerging threats, newer modalities of diagnostic tests and emerging treatment options, and also highlights the increasing problem of antimicrobial resistance.Nosocomial pneumonia is increasingly due to multidrug-resistant Gram-negative organisms in ...
Gauri, Godbole, Vanya, Gant
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Upper respiratory tract infections

Current Opinion in Pulmonary Medicine, 1999
In reviewing recent advances in upper respiratory tract infections, we focus on five key topics. First, the use of ribavirin in the treatment of respiratory syncytial virus infection has been limited to the immunosuppressed. Prophylaxis in high-risk patients with specific immunoglobulin is effective and a new monoclonal antibody shows promise.
D A, Moore, M, Sharland, J S, Friedland
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Lower Respiratory Tract Infections

Infectious Disease Clinics of North America, 2004
Lower respiratory tract infections (LRTIs) are among the most common infections treated by health care providers. They include a variety of infections ranging from mild acute viral bronchitis to life-threatening ventilatorassociated pneumonia. Despite advances in general knowledge concerning such diseases, there remains considerable morbidity and ...
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Upper Respiratory Tract Infections

Primary Care: Clinics in Office Practice, 1990
Upper respiratory tract infections are among the most common acute infections in humans. This review discusses the clinically important aspects of the epidemiology, etiology, clinical presentation, diagnosis, management, complications, and prevention of the common cold, pharyngitis, otitis media, and sinusitis.
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Erythromycin in Respiratory Tract Infection

Scottish Medical Journal, 1977
One of the main uses of erythromycin in respiratory tract infection has been in the treatment of acute streptococcal tonsillitis as an alternative to penicillin. Studies on the quantitative bacteriology of tonsils obtained at tonsillectomy have shown large numbers of both haemolytic streptococci and Haemophilus species in most samples
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Lower respiratory tract infection

The American Journal of Medicine, 1985
The most important lower respiratory infection is pneumonia, the fourth leading cause of death. Most cases of bronchitis are of viral etiology and are not major problems. Empyema can present an important problem in management. Although the diagnosis of pneumonia is usually relatively straightforward, the specific etiologic diagnosis remains a major ...
S M, Finegold, C C, Johnson
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Mechanisms of infection in the respiratory tract

New Zealand Veterinary Journal, 1981
Related to its potential vulnerability the respiratory tract has a very complex and effective defence apparatus. The interaction between these defence mechanisms and certain characteristics of aetiological agents results in a pattern in which initial infections by these agents tend to occur at specific sites in the tract.
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Prevention of respiratory tract infection

The American Journal of Medicine, 1984
Bacterial infection of the lower respiratory tract is initiated by colonization of the upper respiratory tract followed by aspiration of small volumes of contaminated secretions into the lungs. Failure of lung antibacterial defenses results in pneumonia.
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