The seasonal cycle of respiratory viral diseases has been widely recognized for thousands
of years, as annual epidemics of the common cold and influenza disease hit the human …

Viruses are the most common causes of respiratory infection. The imaging findings of viral
pneumonia are diverse and overlap with those of other nonviral infectious and inflammatory …

Viral infections of the lower respiratory tract are a leading cause of mortality. Mounting
evidence indicates that most severe cases are characterized by aberrant immune responses …

Objectives Although COVID-19 is known to be caused by human-to-human transmission, it
remains largely unclear whether ambient air pollutants and meteorological parameters …

Metagenomic sequencing is revolutionizing the detection and characterization of microbial
species, and a wide variety of software tools are available to perform taxonomic …

Background Community-acquired pneumonia is a leading infectious cause of hospitalization
and death among US adults. Incidence estimates of pneumonia confirmed radiographically …

Nanotechnology is defined as the branch of science dealing with extremely small-sized
particles with a size in the range of 1–100 nm, which are termed nanoparticles. Due to the …

Background Incidence estimates of hospitalizations for community-acquired pneumonia
among children in the United States that are based on prospective data collection are …

The respiratory mucosa is the primary portal of entry for numerous viruses such as the
respiratory syncytial virus, the influenza virus and the parainfluenza virus. These pathogens …

Viral infections have recently emerged not only as a health threat to people but rapidly
became the cause of universal fatality on a large scale. Nanomaterials comprising …