Pneumococcal Pneumonia
Pneumococcal pneumonia: differences according to blood culture results
... for pneumonia [32], may also contribute to a higher urea ...bacteremic pneumococcal pneumonia adds some features that are not captured by this severity ...
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Pneumococcal pneumonia and carriage in Africa before and after introduction of pneumococcal conjugate vaccines, 2000–2019: protocol for systematic review
... 173 Pneumococcal pneumonia: For a pneumococcal pneumonia diagnosis among 174 adults, a minimum of either (i) symptoms consistent with an acute chest infection (at 175 least cough or dyspnoea) ...
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The efficacy of high dose penicillin G for pneumococcal pneumonia diagnosed based on initial comprehensive assessment at admission: an observational study
... for pneumococcal pneumonia diagnosed based on a comprehensive initial assessment using a syndromic approach, Gram staining of sputum, and the urinary pneumococcal antigen test was effective in 87% of ...
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Dual function of pneumolysin in the early pathogenesis of murine pneumococcal pneumonia
... Streptococcus pneumoniae is one of the most common etiologic agents of community- acquired pneumonia, particularly bacteremic pneumonia. Pneumolysin, a multifunctional cytotoxin, is a putative virulence ...
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The Alere BinaxNOW Pneumococcal Urinary Antigen Test: Diagnostic Sensitivity for Adult Pneumococcal Pneumonia and Relationship to Specific Serotypes
... of pneumococcal serotypes, causing a shift in the sensitivity of the PUA ...of pneumococcal pneumonia caused by serotypes with high PUA test sensitivity ...in pneumococcal pneumonia ...
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Impact of the factor V Leiden mutation on the outcome of pneumococcal pneumonia: a controlled laboratory study
... As FXIII, the main crosslinker of fibrin, has been linked to organ failure in septic shock in rabbits [30] we performed FXIII blots in plasma of antibiotic-treated mice. Remarkably, FXIII was depleted in homozygous FVL ...
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Age-related differences in management and outcomes in hospitalized healthy and well-functioning bacteremic pneumococcal pneumonia patients: a cohort study
... bacteremic pneumococcal pneumonia is associated with age and the severity of the infectious condition itself, the role of age as a prognostic factor is controversial [34, ...
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Bacteremic Pneumococcal Pneumonia: a Longitudinal Study in 279 Adult Patients from a Single Center
... acquired pneumonia (CAP) in adults accounting for most cases of pneumonia hospitalizations and deaths ...Bacteremic pneumonia is the most frequent invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) in adults ...
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Severe pneumococcal pneumonia: impact of new quinolones on prognosis
... of pneumococcal pneumonia: Waterer et ...bacteremic pneumococcal pneumonia demon- strated that a single effective therapy was an independent predictor of mortality (AOR = ...
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IMMUNOLOGICAL STUDIES OF PNEUMOCOCCAL PNEUMONIA IN PATIENTS TREATED WITH PENICILLIN
... The data presented in this paper indicate that the antibody response agglutinins and mouse protective antibodies of patients with pneumococcal pneumonia treated with penicillin is compar[r] ...
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Quantitative PCR Assay Using Sputum Samples for Rapid Diagnosis of Pneumococcal Pneumonia in Adult Emergency Department Patients
... for pneumococcal pneumonia had positive PCR ...high pneumococcal load detected in these 12 patients’ sputa leads us to suggest that they mainly constitute true-positive ...
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Association between Serotype-Specific Antibody Response and Serotype Characteristics in Patients with Pneumococcal Pneumonia, with Special Reference to Degree of Encapsulation and Invasive Potential
... with pneumococcal pneumonia, Coonrod and Drennan (9) noted a reduced and/or delayed production of anti-pneumococcal anti- bodies in cases with detected pneumococcal antigenemia, al- though a ...
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The role of TLR2 in the host response to pneumococcal pneumonia in absence of the spleen
... of pneumococcal LTA in vivo ...against pneumococcal pneumonia [8,11, ...post-influenza pneumococcal pneumonia [13], which normally is associated with a much stronger inflamma- tory ...
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Telavancin in Experimental Murine Pneumococcal Pneumonia
... We determined whether telavancin is as active in experimental immunocompetent murine pneumococcal pneumonia as is vancomycin or ceftriaxone. Experimental murine pneumonia was established by ...
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Infection with Human Metapneumovirus Predisposes Mice to Severe Pneumococcal Pneumonia
... severe pneumococcal pneumonia through different mechanisms, the outcomes were similar in both ...conjugate pneumococcal vaccine in reducing the severity of hMPV and influenza virus infections by ...
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Lipocalin 2 deactivates macrophages and worsens pneumococcal pneumonia outcomes
... bacterial pneumonia in humans, and high LCN2 levels were indicative of a detrimental outcome from pneumonia with Gram-positive ...of pneumococcal infections and highlight the role of LCN2 and IL-10 ...
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Quantitation of pneumococcal C polysaccharide in sputum samples from patients with presumptive pneumococcal pneumonia by enzyme immunoassay
... Of 34 patient sputum samples collected within 24 h of the first radiographic report of pneumonia, 12 grew Streptococcus pneumoniae on culture.. By using a cutoff point of 0.5 ,ug of PnC [r] ...
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Vasculotide reduces pulmonary hyperpermeability in experimental pneumococcal pneumonia
... Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is the most common serious infectious disease worldwide ...in pneumonia may increase pulmonary endothelial permeability, leading to the formation of interstitial and ...
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Value of sputum culture in diagnosis of pneumococcal pneumonia
... RESULTS Sputum was examined in the clinical microbiology laboratory by a direct Gram stain of the specimen and by culture at 35°C on the following media: Thirty-one patients met the crit[r] ...
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Pneumococcal Serotypes Causing Pneumonia with Pleural Effusion in Pediatric Patients
... that pneumococcal pneumonia with pleural effusion is associated with a limited number of ...coccal pneumonia with pleural effusion and lists the five most common pneumococcal serotypes ...
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