Streptococcus pneumoniae is an infectious pathogen responsible for millions of deaths
worldwide. Diseases caused by this bacterium are classified as pneumococcal diseases …

Background: Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is common and often severe. Purpose:
To examine the effect of adjunctive corticosteroid therapy on mortality, morbidity, and …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Background Clinical trials yielded conflicting data about the benefit of adding systemic
corticosteroids for treatment of community-acquired pneumonia. We assessed whether short …

Aminoglycoside antibiotics are used as prophylaxis, or urgent treatment, for many life-
threatening bacterial infections, including tuberculosis, sepsis, respiratory infections in cystic …

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 …

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Since the initial 1996 American Thoracic Society (ATS) guideline
on nosocomial pneumonia, a number of new developments have appeared, mandating a …

Background: In the assessment of severity in community acquired pneumonia (CAP), the
modified British Thoracic Society (mBTS) rule identifies patients with severe pneumonia but …