Background: Appropriate antibiotic use reduces the mortality of patients with lung abscess;
however, 40-60% of the bacterial etiologies in these patients have remained unknown with …

Objective To determine the spectrum and antibiotic susceptibility patterns of microorganisms
causing acute community-acquired lung abscess. Design A prospective survey. Setting …

Background: Anaerobes are the first and Streptococcus species the second most common
cause of community-acquired lung abscess (CALA) in the West. The etiologic pathogens of …

Background. Most literature regarding lung abscess focuses on anaerobic bacterial lung
abscess, and aerobic gram-negative bacillary infection is less frequently discussed. This …

Information related to the clinical characteristics and isolated microbes associated with lung
abscesses comparing immunocompromised (IC) to non-immunocompromised (non-IC) …

BACKGROUND: The incidence of lung abscess acquired in the community is unknown, but
this is a common clinical problem encountered in developing countries. The incidence of …

Anaerobes comprise most of the endogenous oropharyngeal microflora, and can cause
infections of airways in lung cancer patients who are at high risk for respiratory tract …

The applications of the 16S rRNA gene pyrosequencing has expanded our knowledge of
the respiratory tract microbiome originally obtained using conventional, culture-based …

Introduction Lung abscess (LA) is a serious respiratory infection often followed by several
weeks of antibiotic treatment. This study described the clinical presentation of LA, treatment …

Asthma etiopathology is still not fully determined. One of its possible causes can be found in
airway microbiome dysbiosis. The study's purpose was to determine whether there are any …