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From:Chest (Vol. 112, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedStudy objectives: To compare the plasma concentration of C-reactive protein (CRP) with traditional markers for diagnosis of bacterial pneumonia in patients with suspected aspiration. Design: Prospective, nonrandomized,...
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From:Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week2020 DEC 5 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week -- Current study results on Lung Diseases and Conditions - Viral Pneumonia have been published. According to news reporting...
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From:Chest (Vol. 115, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedA Prospective Study Context: Aspiration of oropharyngeal material, with its high concentration of anaerobic bacteria, has been implicated in the pathogenesis of both ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) and...
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From:BMC Infectious Diseases (Vol. 13, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Thanh Thi Mai Doan1,2,3 , Thuy Thi Bich Phung1,2 , Hung Viet Pham1 , Son Hong Pham1,2 and Liem Thanh Nguyen1,2 Background Cytomegalovirus (CMV) is a common cause of acute lower respiratory infection,...
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From:Case Reports in Medicine (Vol. 2018) Peer-ReviewedCase Summary. We present a case of a young female with subacute symptoms of cough and progressive dyspnoea. On evaluation, the patient was diagnosed as cryptogenic organizing pneumonia based on her histopathological...
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From:Case Reports in Pulmonology (Vol. 2017) Peer-ReviewedPulmonary nocardiosis is a severe and uncommon opportunistic infection caused by Nocardia species. We present a patient with cryptogenic organizing pneumonia who was receiving long-term immunosuppressive therapy, whose...
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From:BMC Infectious Diseases (Vol. 21, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground In the past few years, Mycoplasma pneumoniae (Shi et al. Lancet 390:946-958, 2017) infection has been reported more in China. However, there are few studies on the clinical characteristics and prognosis of...
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From:Reactions Weekly (Issue 1253)[S] A 53-year-old man developed Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia leading to interstitial pneumonia during treatment with bortezomib for multiple myeloma. The man received induction therapy with bortezomib [ dosage...
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From:Patient Care (Vol. 25, Issue 17) Peer-ReviewedCASE A 26-year-old white man had a five-day history of fever, chills, productive cough with yellowish sputum, arthralgia, and myalgia localized to his back. His physician assumed he had influenza and prescribed...
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From:Obesity, Fitness & Wellness WeekInvestigators publish new data in the report "Role of exonic variation in chemokine receptor genes on AIDS: CCRL2 F167Y association with pneumocystis pneumonia. 'Chromosome 3p21-22 harbors two clusters of chemokine...
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From:Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week2022 JUL 9 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week -- Investigators publish new report on Lung Diseases and Conditions - Pneumonia. According to news reporting originating...
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From:Journal of Respiratory Diseases (Vol. 23, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT: In most cases, it is not difficult to distinguish between acute interstitial pneumonia (AIP) and bronchiolitis obliterans organizing pneumonia (BOOP). AIP is characterized by an acute, fulminant onset of...
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From:Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine (Vol. 11, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedPneumonia is an infectious disease of the lung causing mortality. Mycoplasma pneumonia (MP) is an atypical bacterial pneumonia that damages several organs. Lung computed tomography (CT) has been utilized in its...
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From:Emerging Infectious Diseases (Vol. 27, Issue 6) Peer-Reviewed
Twenty-Year Public Health Impact of 7--and 13-Valent Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccines in US Children.
Pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCVs) have been used in the United States since 2000. To assess the cumulative 20-year effect of PCVs on invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) incidence among children <5 years of age, we... -
From:Critical Care (Vol. 16, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction The aim of this study was to compare a 7-day course of doripenem to a 10-day course of imipenem-cilastatin for ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) due to Gram-negative bacteria. Methods This was...
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From:Emerging Infectious Diseases (Vol. 18, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedTo confirm whether respiratory virus infections increase susceptibility to invasive pneumococcal pneumonia, we examined data from 11 influenza seasons (1994-2005) in the United States. Invasive pneumococcal pneumonia...
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From:The Western Journal of Medicine (Vol. 154, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedOnly a few pathogens cause most community-acquired pneumonias. In outpatients, treatment is empiric, based on the results of chest films, leukocyte counts, and Gram's stains (if available). Antibiotics must always cover...
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From:RT for Decision Makers in Respiratory Care (Vol. 20, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedPNEUMONIA IS THE SECOND MOST COMMON NOSOCOMIAL infection (after urinary tract infection) in the United States, and the leading cause of death as a result of nosocomial infection. (1) It accounts for approximately 15% of...
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From:Critical Care (Vol. 16, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) may contribute to the mortality associated with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). We aimed to determine the incidence, outcome, and risk factors of...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 11, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedImmunoproteasomes, harboring the active site subunits [beta]5i/LMP7, [beta]1i/LMP2, and [beta]2i/MECL1 exert protective, regulatory or modulating functions during infection-induced immune responses. Immunoproteasomes...