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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: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: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: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: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: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: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: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...
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From:Emerging Infectious Diseases (Vol. 17, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedStreptococcus pneumoniae causes a spectrum of disease, ranging from relatively mild otitis media to life-threatening pneumonia, meningitis, and septicemia. Recent estimates suggest that pneumococcal disease is...
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From:Emerging Infectious Diseases (Vol. 8, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedThe disease known as Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) is a major cause of illness and death in persons with impaired immune systems. While the genus Pneumocystis has been known to science for nearly a century,...
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From:Italian Journal of Pediatrics (Vol. 38, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Pneumonia is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in children. Objective The aim of study was to evaluate the efficacy of Zinc supplementation in treatment of severe pneumonia in hospitalized...
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From:Contemporary Pediatrics (Vol. 16, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedEmpiric chest X-rays reveal occult pneumonia. Routine chest radiographs in children with fever and leukocytosis but no identifiable major infection can be of value in detecting occult pneumonia, a new report suggests....
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 17, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedBackground Around 12-20% of patients with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) require critical care. Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is the second cause of nosocomial infection in Paediatric Intensive Care Units...
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From:Italian Journal of Pediatrics (Vol. 46, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground and objectives The goal of this literature review is to compare current studies regarding the accuracy of different serum markers in differentiating viral from bacterial pneumonia in the pediatric population...
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From:Emerging Infectious Diseases (Vol. 15, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedTo the Editor: Currently, animal and human studies favor an airborne transmission pattern for Pneumocystis pneumonia (1). However, the early age of acquisition of Pneumocystis spp. in different mammals, including...
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From:Chest (Vol. 102, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe purpose of this study was to establish the diagnostic value of pneumococcal capsular antigen by comparing this with the results of Gram stain and culture in representative and nonrepresentative sputa during...
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From:Lung (Vol. 193, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedPurpose Galectin-9 (Gal-9) is a β-galactoside-binding protein that exhibits various biological reactions, such as chemoattraction, cell aggregation, and apoptosis. Recent studies demonstrated that Gal-9 has a role as an...
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From:BioMed Research International (Vol. 2021) Peer-ReviewedObjective. Exploration of the underlying molecular mechanism of Jinchan Oral Liquid (JOL) in treating children with the respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) pneumonia to provide new evidence for the clinical application....
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From:Expert Review of Respiratory Medicine (Vol. 5, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedBronchiolitis obliterans organizing pneumonia is an inflammatory lung disease involving the distal bronchioles, respiratory bronchioles, bronchiolar ducts and alveoli. Its cause is generally unknown, but there are...