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Community-acquired pneumonia

S.P. Stone
- 19 Dec 1998 - 
- Vol. 352, Iss: 9145, pp 2019-2019
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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.

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Viruses detected by systematic multiplex polymerase chain reaction in adults with suspected community-acquired pneumonia attending emergency departments in France

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Risk of hospitalization due to pneumococcal disease in adults in Spain. The CORIENNE study.

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Aetiology of community-acquired pneumonia among adults in an H1N1 pandemic year: the role of respiratory viruses.

TL;DR: Pneumococci and respiratory syncytial virus were the most frequently identified pathogens and shaking chills, higher CURB score and shock were significantly more frequent in BP than in VP patients.
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Role of non-conventional T lymphocytes in respiratory infections: the case of the pneumococcus.

TL;DR: The role of non-conventional T cells during respiratory infections is reviewed, with a particular focus on the encapsulated extracellular pathogen Streptococcus pneumoniae, the leading cause of bacterial pneumonia worldwide.
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Pulmonary defense mechanisms against pneumonia and sepsis.

TL;DR: Clearly, understanding the immune response in the lung is critical to the development of future therapeutics for pneumonia and sepsis, and this review concludes with novel discoveries in the Lung immune response, which may lead to future avenues of treatment.
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