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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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“Ten Commandments” for the Appropriate use of Antibiotics by the Practicing Physician in an Outpatient Setting
Gabriel Levy-Hara,Carlos F. Amábile-Cuevas,Ian Gould,Jim Hutchinson,Lilian M. Abbo,Lynora Saxynger,Erika Vlieghe,Fernando Lopes Cardoso,Shaheen Methar,Souha S. Kanj,Norio Ohmagari,Stéphan Juergen Harbarth +11 more
TL;DR: A multi-national working group on antibiotic stewardship, from the International Society of Chemotherapy, put together ten recommendations to physicians prescribing antibiotics to outpatients.
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Sequential organ failure assessment score is an excellent operationalization of disease severity of adult patients with hospitalized community acquired pneumonia – results from the prospective observational PROGRESS study
Peter Ahnert,Petra Creutz,Katrin Horn,Fabian Schwarzenberger,Michael Kiehntopf,Hamid Hossain,Michael Bauer,Frank M. Brunkhorst,Konrad Reinhart,Uwe Völker,Trinad Chakraborty,Martin Witzenrath,Markus Löffler,Norbert Suttorp,Markus Scholz +14 more
TL;DR: SOFA score can serve as an excellent operationalization of CAP severity and is proposed as endpoint for biomarker and therapeutic studies.
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Mothers’ Perception and Healthcare Seeking Behavior of Pneumonia Children in Rural Bangladesh
Farzana Ferdous,Farzana Ferdous,Fahmida Dil Farzana,Shahnawaz Ahmed,Sumon Kumar Das,Sumon Kumar Das,Mohammad Abdul Malek,Jui Das,Abu Syed Golam Faruque,Mohammod Jobayer Chisti +9 more
TL;DR: Mothers' perception about signs and symptoms, causes of the illness, and healthcare seeking behaviors related to pneumonia and the major modifiable barriers to seeking timely treatment when their under-5 children had pneumonia in rural Bangladesh are described.
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Psoriasis and the Risk of Pneumonia: A Population-Based Study
TL;DR: Patients with psoriasis have significantly higher incidence of pneumonia compared to those without Psoriasis, and this retrospective cohort study aimed to compare the risk of pneumonia between subjects with and those without psOriasis.
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Comparative transcriptional profiling of the lung reveals shared and distinct features of Streptococcus pneumoniae and influenza A virus infection.
Simone Rosseau,Andreas C. Hocke,Hans J. Mollenkopf,Bernd Schmeck,Norbert Suttorp,Stefan H. E. Kaufmann,Jens Zerrahn +6 more
TL;DR: Pneumonia is the most common cause of death from infectious disease in the western hemisphere and pathophysiological consequences of influenza A virus infection were reflected by the emerging protective T‐cell response and differential induction of genes involved in tissue regeneration and proliferation, highlighting the value of transcriptional profiling for the elucidation of underlying mechanisms.
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