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Infectious disease burden and antibiotic prescribing in primary care in Israel

Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials, 2018
Background Antibiotics are frequently prescribed at many of the visits to primary care clinics, often for conditions for which they provide no benefit, including viral respiratory tract infections.
Marcelo Low, Ronit Almog, Ran D. Balicer, Nicky Liberman, Raul Raz, Avi Peretz, Orna Nitzan   +6 more
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Romiplostim use in pregnant women with immune thrombocytopenia

American Journal of Hematology, Volume 98, Issue 1, Page 31-40, January 2023., 2023
Abstract Treatment for immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) in pregnancy is hampered by the lack of fetal safety evidence of maternally‐administered medications. The Pregnancy Surveillance Program (PSP) collected patient information from 2017–2020 for pregnancy, birth outcomes, and adverse events (AEs) for 186 women exposed to romiplostim from 20 days before ...
James B. Bussel, Nichola Cooper, Tatiana Lawrence, Marc Michel, Emilie Vander Haar, Kejia Wang, Hongmei Wang, Hossam Saad   +7 more
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The Effect of Prevention Practices Taken During the Pandemic Process on the Prevalence of Other Respiratory Infections

Ahi Evran Medical Journal, 2023
Purpose: In this study, it is aimed to determine whether there is a change in the frequency of upper respiratory tract and lower respiratory tract infections except for COVID-19 between 2019-2020, and to determine the effect of pandemic measures on this ...
Burcu BEYAZGÜL , Rüstem KUZAN, Hazal KAYA, İbrahim KORUK   +3 more
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Semi-Automatic Labeling and Semantic Segmentation of Gram-Stained Microscopic Images from DIBaS Dataset [PDF]

arXiv, 2022
In this paper, a semi-automatic annotation of bacteria genera and species from DIBaS dataset is implemented using clustering and thresholding algorithms. A Deep learning model is trained to achieve the semantic segmentation and classification of the bacteria species. Classification accuracy of 95% is achieved.
arxiv  

MV130 in the Prevention of Recurrent Respiratory Tract Infections: A Retrospective Real-World Study in Children and Adults

Vaccines
Respiratory tract infections (RTIs) are among the most common and important problems in clinical medicine, making antibiotics the gold standard therapeutic option regardless of their frequent viral etiology.
Karla Montalbán-Hernández, Ana Cogollo-García, Patricia Girón de Velasco-Sada, Raquel Caballero, Miguel Casanovas, José Luis Subiza, Laura Conejero   +6 more
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Respiratory viral infection`s frequency and clinical outcome in symptomatic children with cancer: A single center experience from a middle-income country

The Turkish Journal of Pediatrics, 2018
In developing countries, acute respiratory tract infections are a significant cause of morbidity and mortality in children, particularly in pediatric cancer patients. A majority of these illnesses are precipitated by viral infections.
Sema Büyükkapu-Bay, Rejin Kebudi, Ömer Görgün, Sevim Meşe, Bülent Zülfikar, Selim Badur   +5 more
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Association of Broad- vs Narrow-Spectrum Antibiotics With Treatment Failure, Adverse Events, and Quality of Life in Children With Acute Respiratory Tract Infections

Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 2017
Importance Acute respiratory tract infections account for the majority of antibiotic exposure in children, and broad-spectrum antibiotic prescribing for acute respiratory tract infections is increasing. It is not clear whether broad-spectrum treatment is
J. Gerber, J. Gerber, Rachael K. Ross, M. Bryan, A. Localio, J. Szymczak, R. Wasserman, Darlene Barkman, Folasade Odeniyi, Kathryn Conaboy, L. Bell, T. Zaoutis, T. Zaoutis, A. Fiks, A. Fiks   +14 more
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Study of Air Curtain in Context of Individual Protection from Exposure to Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) Contained in Cough-Generated Fluid Particles [PDF]

Physics 2020, 2(3), 340-351, 2020
The ongoing respiratory COVID-19 pandemic has heavily impacted the social and private lives of the majority of the global population. This infection is primarily transmitted via virus-laden fluid particles (i.e., droplets and aerosols) that are formed in the respiratory tract of infected individuals and expelled from the mouth in the course of ...
arxiv   +1 more source

Transmission factors and exposure to infections at work and invasive pneumococcal disease

American Journal of Industrial Medicine, Volume 66, Issue 1, Page 65-74, January 2023., 2023
Abstract Background Working in close contacts with coworkers or the general public may be associated with transmission of invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD). We investigated whether crowded workplaces, sharing surfaces, and exposure to infections were factors associated with IPD.
Kjell Torén, Maria Albin, Magnus Alderling, Linus Schiöler, Maria Åberg   +4 more
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Viral Infections of the Respiratory Tract [PDF]

, 1994
Viral infections of the respiratory tract are responsible for large amounts of time lost from the workplace and significant morbidity and mortality in the very young and the very old. The worldwide pandemic of influenza in 1918 was alone responsible for nearly 30 million deaths in excess of those expected for influenza. Viral respiratory infections are
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