Infectious Diseases in Geriatric Medicine Thomas J.MarrieMD, FRCPC,Thomas M.FileJr.MD, MSc, inClinics in Geriatric Medicine, 2016 Introduction Bacterial pneumoniais one of the most common infections in the elderly adult. Pneumonia is a disease of the alveoli and respiratory bronchioles caused by ...
The severity of infectious disease outcomes is dependent on the virulence factors of the pathogen and the host immune response. CARD8 is a major regulator of the innate immune proinflammatory response and has been suggested to modulate the host response to common inflammatory diseases. In the presen...
Guidelines from the Committee on Infectious Disease of the American Academy of Pediatrics acknowledge this uncertainty and state that for infants and children aged 6 weeks or older, “adjunctive therapy with dexamethasone may be considered after weighing the potential benefits and risks.”1 Adjuvant ...
Survey of childhood empyema in Asia: Implications for detecting the unmeasured burden of culture-negative bacterial disease. Nyambat Batmunkh,Kilgore Paul,Yong Dong,Anh Dang,Chiu Chen-Hsun,Shen Xuzhuang,Jodar Luis,Ng Timothy,Bock Hans,Hausdorff William. BMC Infectious Diseases . 2008...
Group (a) was identified using the Inter- national Classification of Diseases (ICD)-10 code of P360 to P368; meanwhile, the ICD-10 code for group (b) was P369. While selecting the "sepsis group," the data from cul- ture result records in the neonatal ward was also searched to ...
www.nature.com/scientificreports OPEN received: 10 September 2015 accepted: 17 November 2015 Published: 18 December 2015 Iron oxide nanoparticle-mediated hyperthermia stimulates dispersal in bacterial biofilms and enhances antibiotic efficacy Thuy-Khanh Nguyen1, Hien T. T. Duong1,†, Ramona...
which are essential for the activation of adaptive immune cells and the subsequent development of protective immune responses against the infectious nonself antigens.7,8In recent years, a number of microbial components have been used as adjuvants to augment the immune responses of poorly immunogenic...
of the infection or might be asymptomatic carriers of the epidemic strain ofS. pneumoniae. Some students will be traveling to popular college student vacation spots. Crowding and limited access to handwashing facilities might result in further transmission of this highly infectious strain ofS. ...
ICD-10: K71-76), Renal failure (ICD-8: 582; ICD-9: 585–586; ICD-10: N18-19), Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) (ICD-8: 491–492; ICD-9:491–492, 496; ICD-10: J41-J44), Heart failure: ICD-8: 427,00, 428; ICD-9: 428; ICD-10: I50, Ischemic heart disease...
et al., Normal feeding behavior, body weight and leptin response require the neuropeptide Y Y2 receptor, Nat Med 5(10):1188-93 (Oct. 1999). Abstract Only. Nielsen, O. H., Intestinal interleukin-8 concentration and gene expression in inflammatory bowel disease, Scand J Gastroenterol, 32(...