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Community-acquired pneumonia
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This article is published in The Lancet.The article was published on 1998-12-19. It has received 1403 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Community-acquired pneumonia.read more
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Recomendaciones para la atención del paciente con neumonía adquirida en la comunidad en los Servicios de Urgencias
Agustín Julián-Jiménez,Inmaculada Adán Valero,Alicia Beteta López,Luis Miguel Cano Martín,Olga Fernández Rodríguez,Rafael Rubio Díaz,Mª Antonia Sepúlveda Berrocal,Juan González del Castillo,Francisco Javier Candel González,En nombre del grupo Nac +9 more
TL;DR: Se ha diseñado esta guía clínica con diversas recomendaciones para las decisiones y momentos clave en proceso de atención del paciente con NAC en Urgencias, la principal causa de muerte y de ingreso en la unidad de cuidados intensivos (UCI) por enfermedad infecciosa.
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Novel synthetic antimicrobial peptides with In-Vivo and In-Vitro activity against Streptococcus Pneumoniae / Le Cheng Foh
TL;DR: It is demonstrated that AMPs represent the promising new generation antibiotics as standalone therapeutics or in combination with conventional antibiotics.
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Antimicrobial resistance of Streptococcus pneumoniae at a university hospital in Saudi Arabia.
TL;DR: Against penicillin-resistant pneu-mococci, vancomycin was the most powerful agent, amoxycillin-clavulanate was half as active, whereas ceftriaxone, cefotaxime and imipenem were 4-fold less active than vancomYcin.
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The Adhesion and Invasion Mechanisms of Streptococci.
TL;DR: This review presents the adhesion and invasion mechanisms of different streptococci and the interaction with host cells leading to internalization and triggers downstream signal transduction in the host cells, leading to the uptake of bacteria.
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A sensitive and rapid immunoassay for Mycoplasma pneumoniae in children with pneumonia based on single-walled carbon nanotubes.
Ming Song,Ying Zhang,Shi Li,Chunsheng Zhang,Mingming Tao,Ying Tang,Jiang Zhuquan,Cai Sulan,Wei Xu,Weizhuo Xu +9 more
TL;DR: The single-walled carbon nanotubes were coupled with the colloidal gold-monoclonal antibody immunochromatographic strips and the assay was far more effective than any conventional methods for the diagnosis of acute MP.
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Mortality, morbidity, and psychosocial outcomes of persons spinal cord injured more than 20 years ago.
Gale G. Whiteneck,Susan Charlifue,Hans L. Frankel,M H Fraser,B P Gardner,Kenneth A. Gerhart,K R Krishnan,Robert R. Menter,I Nuseibeh,D J Short,John Russell Silver +10 more
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Causes of death during the first 12 years after spinal cord injury
TL;DR: Though some cause-specific mortality rates for spinal cord injured persons have declined dramatically, many remain substantially above normal and improved methods for preventing and managing these fatal complications must be developed.
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Risk factors for Clostridium difficile carriage and C. difficile-associated diarrhea in a cohort of hospitalized patients
TL;DR: C. difficile was a common Nosocomial infection on this ward, resulting in asymptomatic carriage more often than diarrhea and accounting for one-fifth of all cases of nosocomial diarrhea.
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Risk Factors for Clostridium difficile Carriage and C. difficile-Associated Diarrhea in a Cohort of Hospitalized Patients
TL;DR: In this paper, a prospective cohort study of 399 consecutive patients in a single ward over an 11-month period was conducted to identify risk factors for nosocomial C. difficile colonization and diarrhea.
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Successful control of Clostridium difficile infection in an elderly care unit through use of a restrictive antibiotic policy.
Cliodna A. M. McNulty,Margaret Logan,Ian P. Donald,Debbie Ennis,Denise Taylor,R. N. Baldwin,Mira Bannerjee,Keith A. V. Cartwright +7 more
TL;DR: The use of narrow-spectrum antibiotics for hospital treatment of community-acquired infections in the elderly should be encouraged.