Pneumonia - aetiology
Impact of radiologically stratified exacerbations: insights into pneumonia aetiology in COPD
... as pneumonia in an outpatient COPD cohort. That pneumonia is com- mon in this clinical context, associated with heightened levels of systemic inflammation, greater lung function de- terioration and a ...
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The incidence and aetiology of hospitalised community acquired pneumonia among Vietnamese adults: a prospective surveillance in Central Vietnam
... of pneumonia amongst patients with HIV/AIDS may differ, but because of limited laboratory resource, we couldn’t test for additional pathogens like ...the aetiology in HIV infected cases was not apparently ...
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Community acquired polymicrobial pneumonia in the intensive care unit: aetiology and prognosis
... healthcare-associated pneumonia, the frequent association of this pathogen with severe underlying illness [19] may explain the higher rate of this pathogen in the polymicrobial aetiology group, since these ...
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Aetiology and risks factors associated with the fatal outcomes of childhood pneumonia among hospitalised children in the Philippines from 2008 to 2016: a case series study
... This study has some limitations. First, the inclusion of the DAMA-deteriorated cases as deaths could have increased the CFR value. Second, we started collecting information on the risk factors from 2014 onward. Third, ...
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Microbial aetiology, outcomes, and costs of hospitalisation for community acquired pneumonia; an observational analysis
... Background: The aim of this study was to investigate the clinical outcome and especially costs of hospitalisation for community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) in relation to microbial aetiology. This knowledge is ...
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Atypical aetiology in patients hospitalised with community acquired pneumonia is associated with age, gender and season; a data analysis on four Dutch cohorts
... microbiological aetiology of CAP differs between hospital and ambulatory setting, with a higher incidence of atypical pathogens and respiratory viruses in mild cases of CAP in ambulatory setting [10, 32, ...
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The upper respiratory tract microbiome of hospitalised patients with community-acquired pneumonia of unknown aetiology: a pilot study
... pneumoniae in both the nasopharyngeal.[r] ...
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Viral pneumonia in adults and older children in sub-Saharan Africa — epidemiology, aetiology, diagnosis and management
... Corresponding author: Antonia Ho, Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, Chichiri, Blantyre 3, Malawi.[r] ...
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Procalcitonin levels and bacterial aetiology among COPD patients admitted to the ICU with severe pneumonia: a prospective cohort study
... the pneumonia severity index (PSI) to estimate severity ...[17]. Pneumonia was considered bacteriologi- cally confirmed when at least one of the following criteria were present: pathogen concentration ...
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Impact of microbial Aetiology on mortality in severe community acquired pneumonia
... Background: The impact of different classes of microbial pathogens on mortality in severe community-acquired pneumonia is not well elucidated. Previous studies have shown significant variation in the incidence of ...
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Desquamative interstitial pneumonia: an analytic review with an emphasis on aetiology
... interstitial pneumonia (DIP) is characterised by the accumulation of numerous pigmented macrophages within most of the distal airspace of the lung and, sometimes, the presence of giant ...
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Pyrexia: aetiology in the ICU
... Many episodes of pyrexia are due to infections, and can be broadly divided according to whether they are com- munity onset or hospital onset, with hospital-onset in- fections manifesting 48 hours or more after admission ...
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Characterization of the extent of a large outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease by serological assays
... The definition of confirmed non-LD pneumonia was radiographically documented CAP and a negative Legionella UAT and culture with either a proven aetiology other than Legionella, b date of[r] ...
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Aetiology of lower respiratory tract infection in adults in primary care: a prospective study in 11 European countries
... not consider that the implementation of pneumococcal vaccine influenced our findings because of the small number of CAP patients who had been vaccinated. However, only 5% of patients in the most comprehensive ...
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Pathways to understanding the genomic aetiology of osteoarthritis
... Both environmental and genetic factors play a role in the aetiology of OA, with genetic factors accounting for half of the variation in OA susceptibility (30). To date, and all within the last 10 years, 21 ...
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Can chest x-ray predict pneumonia severity and its outcome in children aged 2 months - 5 years?
... of pneumonia should be started as soon as sign and symptoms of pneumonia recognized and should not be delayed for the waiting of chest x-ray ...viral pneumonia having interstitial infiltration and ...
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The aetiology and inhibition of experimental diabetic cataractogenesis
... exposure in vitro to metal - catalysed oxidative stress... Effect of streptozocin diabetes of 21 days duration and dietary ascorbate or 115 acetylsalicylic acid supplementation on the[r] ...
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Validation of the prediction rules identifying drug-resistant pathogens in community-onset pneumonia
... of pneumonia in some cases because the cultures were performed semiquantitatively rather than quan- ...in Pneumonia (DRIP) score that was recently published and includes prior DRP history as a risk factor ...
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Aetiology of Hirschsprung's disease associated enterocolitis
... All of these studies have used either rabbit small intestine or suckling infant mouse methods to detect the secretory activity. The choice of animal tissue as well as the sit[r] ...
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