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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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Is COPD associated with increased mortality and morbidity in hospitalized pneumonia? A systematic review and meta-analysis.
TL;DR: The current available evidence indicates that COPD may not be associated with increased mortality and morbidity in patients hospitalized with community‐acquired pneumonia (CAP), and should be re‐evaluated by prospective population‐based cohort studies.
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Pneumococcal Capsular Polysaccharide Vaccine-Mediated Protection against Serotype 3 Streptococcus pneumoniae in Immunodeficient Mice
TL;DR: The findings suggest that PPS-based vaccines can be effective in the setting of CD4 T-cell deficiency but that CD8 T cells could be required for vaccine-mediated protection against pulmonary challenge with serotype 3 pneumococcus.
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Detection and serotyping of pneumococci in community acquired pneumonia patients without culture using blood and urine samples
Karin E. M. Elberse,Suzan P. van Mens,Amelieke J. H. Cremers,Sabine C. A. Meijvis,Bart J. M. Vlaminckx,Marien I. de Jonge,Jacques F. Meis,Cornelis Blauwendraat,Ingrid van de Pol,Leo M. Schouls +9 more
TL;DR: Direct detection and subsequent serotyping on clinical samples will improve the accuracy of pneumococcal surveillance to monitor vaccine effectiveness and indicates the usefulness of additional molecular methods to conventional laboratory methods for the detection of pneumitiscal pneumonia.
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Impact of an electronic antibiotic advice and approval system on antibiotic prescribing in an Australian teaching hospital.
M Lindsay Grayson,M Lindsay Grayson,Sharmila Melvani,Sue W Kirsa,Stephen Cheung,Anthony M Korman,M Kent Garrett,William A. R. Thomson +7 more
TL;DR: IDEA3S is a useful new adjunct to routine clinician consultation to support appropriate antibiotic prescribing for a number of common indications in hospitals and is associated with stable overall rates of antimicrobial use.
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Community-acquired pneumonia: economics of inpatient medical care vis-à-vis clinical severity.
Vojislav Cupurdija,Zorica Lazic,Marina Petrovic,Slavica Mojsilovic,Ivan Cekerevac,Nemanja Rancic,Mihajlo Jakovljevic +6 more
TL;DR: Clinical severity at admission appears to be unrelated to the costs of CAP treatment, which is mostly attributable to unwarranted hospital admission in cases of mild pneumonia, as well as to over-prescription of antibiotics.
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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.
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TL;DR: The use of narrow-spectrum antibiotics for hospital treatment of community-acquired infections in the elderly should be encouraged.