Physical and engineering sciences in medicine
Apr 3, 2020
In this study, a dataset of X-ray images from patients with common bacterial pneumonia, confirmed Covid-19 disease, and normal incidents, was utilized for the automatic detection of the Coronavirus disease. The aim of the study is to evaluate the per...
BACKGROUND: The role of macrolide/β-lactam combination therapy in community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) of moderate severity is a matter of debate. Macrolides expand the coverage to atypical pathogens and attenuate pulmonary inflammation, but have been ...
Journal of infection and chemotherapy : official journal of the Japan Society of Chemotherapy
Dec 29, 2017
Community-acquired pneumonia and otitis media are caused by several bacterial species, including Streptococcus pneumoniae, Haemophilus influenzae, and Moraxella catarrhalis. For the treatment of these diseases, various quinolones are frequently used....
UNLABELLED: This cross-sectional study assessed the prevalence of bacteria isolated from Spanish children with suspected chronic lower respiratory tract infection (LRTI) for whom bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) was indicated. BAL fluid (BALF) was collec...
Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
Aug 1, 2025
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Pneumonia is the leading cause of hospitalisation and mortality among children under five, particularly in low-resource settings. Accurate differentiation between viral and bacterial pneumonia is essential for guiding approp...
BACKGROUND: The differential diagnosis of invasive pulmonary aspergillosis (IPA), pulmonary mucormycosis (PM), bacterial pneumonia (BP) and pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) are challenging due to overlapping clinical and imaging features. Manual CT lesio...
Nan fang yi ke da xue xue bao = Journal of Southern Medical University
Jun 20, 2024
OBJECTIVE: To predict the risk of in-hospital death in patients with chronic heart failure (CHF) complicated by lung infections using interpretable machine learning.
This in vitro study aimed to investigate the synergistic antibacterial activity of polymyxin B in combination with 2 nm silver nanoparticles (NPs) against Gram-negative pathogens commonly isolated from the cystic fibrosis (CF) lung. The in vitro syne...
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