Lower Respiratory Tract Infections
Markers of lower respiratory tract infections in emergency departments
... the lower respiratory tract was indi- cated by different studies in ...determine lower respira- tory diseases ...of lower respiratory tract infections in patients ...
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Study of significance of thrombocytosis in lower respiratory tract infections in children
... Upto 13% of in-patient deaths in pediatric wards are due to LRTI. 1 ABSTRACT Background: Lower Respiratory Tract Infections (LRTI) continues to threaten the health of children worldwide. Up to ...
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Laboratory Diagnosis of Lower Respiratory Tract Infections: Controversy and Conundrums
... summary, lower respiratory tract infections are among the most commonly encountered infectious diseases causing sig- nificant morbidity and ...
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Microbiology of Lower Respiratory Tract Infections in Benin City, Nigeria
... Lower respiratory tract infections (LRTIs) are among the most common infectious diseases affecting humans worldwide ...chronic respiratory infections ...
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Antibiotics for lower respiratory tract infections. Still too frequently prescribed?
... cute bronchitis is one of the most fre- quent reasons for prescribing antibiotics to adults. 1,2 Acute bronchitis is distinct from acute exacerbation of chronic bronchitis in that patients who present with cough and ...
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Clinical predictors of hypoxemia in children with acute lower respiratory tract infections
... with software package "SPSS program version 13" .The study sample was divided into two groups: Group1(cases, hypoxic) children having oxygen saturation <95%, Group 2( control, non-hypoxic) children complaining ...
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Multiplex real-time PCR detection of respiratory viruses in lower respiratory tract infections in children
... Acute respiratory infections cause significant morbidity and mortality in ...new respiratory viruses have been identified and co-detection of multiple viruses is commonly ...detect respiratory ...
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Influence of feeding pattern on risk factors of lower respiratory tract infections in infants
... with lower respiratory tract infection 24 ...with lower anthropometric measures are more prone to get lower respiratory tract infections as these data agrees with ...
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Drivers of antibiotic prescribing in children and adolescents with febrile lower respiratory tract infections
... pediatric lower res- piratory tract infection (LRTI) could support rational antibiotic ...febrile lower respiratory tract infections, in spite of their known poor prediction of ...
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Clinical study of lower respiratory tract infections in children attending a tertiary care hospital
... of respiratory tract infections in 2010, estimates four and half million deaths due to respiratory tract infections among children every ...globally. Lower ...
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Hospitalizations for Severe Lower Respiratory Tract Infections
... transmit infections to them), children with underlying med- ical conditions, and children in socio- economic settings requiring public insurance, including expanded cover- age for recommended vaccines to meet ...
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Hospitalizations for Severe Lower Respiratory Tract Infections
... transmit infections to them), children with underlying med- ical conditions, and children in socio- economic settings requiring public insurance, including expanded cover- age for recommended vaccines to meet ...
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Nonvalue of sputum culture in the management of lower respiratory tract infections
... Between 1 January 1985 and 31 March 1985, 226 patients whose expectorated sputum in culture yielded potential pathogens were evaluated for clin- ical and radiologic evidence of upper or [r] ...
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Multidrug resistant Gram-negative bacilli in lower respiratory tract infections.
... on infections in intensive care unit, whereas the present study included both community acquired and nosocomial ...these infections. Gonlugur et al. (15) have reported lower rates of ESBL production ...
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Experimental Studies for Effective Analysis of the Upper and Lower Respiratory Tract Infections
... crackles, Respiratory sound analysis, Fuzzy-based expert system, Neuro-fuzzy Approach, respiratory inductance plethysmography(RIP), Mel frequency Cepstral ...of respiratory contamination ...of ...
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The Potential Role of Cathelicidin Peptides for the Treatment of Lower Respiratory Tract Infections
... significantly lower inflammatory response, as fewer neutrophils were recruited, and the concentration of inflammatory cytokines recovered from the BALF was significantly lower for multiple different ...
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Determinants of disease severity in children with viral lower respiratory tract infections
... viral lower respiratory tract infection ...increased respiratory effort (e.g. tachypnea and/or use of accessory respiratory muscles or retractions) and/or expiratory wheezing and/or ...
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Reducing the Morbidity of Lower Respiratory Tract Infections Caused by Respiratory Syncytial Virus: Still No Answer
... Considering that RSVIG appears somewhat effec- tive in preventing the frequency and consequences of RSV infection in high-risk infants, why does it ap- pear not to have therapeutic value? The simplest explanation is that ...
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Bacteria Etiological Agents Causing Lower Respiratory Tract Infections and Their Resistance Patterns
... specific infection with different epidemiologies, pathogeneses, clinical presentations, and outcomes. The etiology and symptomatology of respiratory diseases vary with age, gender, season, the type of population ...
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An investigtion of the polymicrobial nature of lower respiratory tract infections in cystic fibrosis patients
... 156 7. Concluding Remarks The lower respiratory tract is a diverse environment harbouring complex microbial communities. In previous studies, it has been demonstrated that bacterial, fungal and viral ...
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