Streptococcus pneumoniae's Virulence and Host Immunity: Aging, Diagnostics, and Prevention

LRK Brooks, GI Mias - Frontiers in immunology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Streptococcus pneumoniae is an infectious pathogen responsible for millions of deaths
worldwide. Diseases caused by this bacterium are classified as pneumococcal diseases …

Corticosteroid therapy for patients hospitalized with community-acquired pneumonia: a systematic review and meta-analysis

RAC Siemieniuk, MO Meade… - Annals of internal …, 2015 - acpjournals.org
Background: Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is common and often severe. Purpose:
To examine the effect of adjunctive corticosteroid therapy on mortality, morbidity, and …

[PDF][PDF] 中国城市成人社区获得性肺炎665 例病原学多中心调查

刘又宁, 陈民钧, 赵铁梅, 王辉, 王睿, 刘庆锋, 蔡柏蔷… - 2006 - newon.cn
摘要目的研究引起社区获得性肺炎(CAP) 的病原体分布及患者入选前是否应用抗生素,
肺炎患者预后研究组(PORT) 分级等的情况, 同时检测常见病原菌的耐药性. 方法入选2003 年12 …

EASL clinical practice guidelines: liver transplantation

European Association for The Study of the Liver - Journal of hepatology, 2016 - Elsevier
The first human orthotopic liver transplantation (LT) in Europe was performed by Sir Roy
Calne in Cambridge in 1968 [1], only one year after the first successful human liver …

Impact of lung segmentation on the diagnosis and explanation of COVID-19 in chest X-ray images

LO Teixeira, RM Pereira, D Bertolini, LS Oliveira… - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
COVID-19 frequently provokes pneumonia, which can be diagnosed using imaging exams.
Chest X-ray (CXR) is often useful because it is cheap, fast, widespread, and uses less …

POCOVID-Net: automatic detection of COVID-19 from a new lung ultrasound imaging dataset (POCUS)

J Born, G Brändle, M Cossio, M Disdier… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
With the rapid development of COVID-19 into a global pandemic, there is an ever more
urgent need for cheap, fast and reliable tools that can assist physicians in diagnosing …

Adjunct prednisone therapy for patients with community-acquired pneumonia: a multicentre, double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled trial

CA Blum, N Nigro, M Briel, P Schuetz, E Ullmer… - The Lancet, 2015 - thelancet.com
Background Clinical trials yielded conflicting data about the benefit of adding systemic
corticosteroids for treatment of community-acquired pneumonia. We assessed whether short …

Aminoglycoside-induced cochleotoxicity: a review

M Jiang, T Karasawa, PS Steyger - Frontiers in cellular neuroscience, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Aminoglycoside antibiotics are used as prophylaxis, or urgent treatment, for many life-
threatening bacterial infections, including tuberculosis, sepsis, respiratory infections in cystic …

Infectious Diseases Society of America/American Thoracic Society consensus guidelines on the management of community-acquired pneumonia in adults

LA Mandell, RG Wunderink, A Anzueto… - Clinical infectious …, 2007 - academic.oup.com
Improving the care of adult patients with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) has been
the focus of many different organizations, and several have developed guidelines for …

Guidelines for the management of adults with hospital-acquired, ventilator-associated, and healthcare-associated pneumonia

American Thoracic Society… - American journal of …, 2005 - search.proquest.com
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Since the initial 1996 American Thoracic Society (ATS) guideline
on nosocomial pneumonia, a number of new developments have appeared, mandating a …