We evaluated the synergistic effect of season and temperature extremes with PM2.5predictors on the risk of each respiratory infection outcome (asthma, LRTI, or URTI) using a time-stratified case-crossover design widely used in studies of short-term environmental health exposures (e.g., [80,87]...
Bacteria that belong to the genusSphingobacteriumare Gram-negative, non-fermentative bacilli, ubiquitous in nature and rarely involved in human infections. The aims of this study were to evaluate the epidemiology of infection bySphingobacteriumin a cohort of patients affected by Cystic Fibrosis (CF), ...
3. Small animal models of human MERS-CoV infection Several small animal species have been evaluated for their ability to support MERS-CoV replication, with variable degrees of success (see Table 2 for summaries). Table 2. Summary of characteristics of MERS-CoV infection of dromedary camels, rabb...
Association of dietary inflammatory index and the SARS-CoV-2 infection incidence, severity and mortality of COVID-19: a systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis July 27, 2024 Research Summaries Respiratory Indulgence in proinflammatory foods may increase an individual's susceptibility to severe...
case definition for influenza – i.e. a respiratory disease that lacks uniquely defining symptomology. The revision process not only modified the definition of influenza-like illness, to include a simplified list of the criteria shown to be most predictive of influenza infection, but also clarified...
Upper respiratory tract infections (including sinus, ear and throat infections) are excluded, as is pulmonary tuberculosis (TB), a very important respiratory infection and a global health problem which has recently been addressed by the WHO.266 6.1. Prevention Influenza viruses and bacteria such as...
As such, the genes being expressed in these pathways at any given time after the initial infection will be changing as a reflection of this temporal progression of the host response. Understanding the temporal evolution of the gene expression is potentially important for accurate diagnosis and ...
case presented here. Thus, RVP assay sensitivity will likely decrease over time by continual viral mutations, which is an inevitable feature of SARS-CoV-2 and many other RNA viruses31. Notably, a previous study evaluating the usefulness of published PCR primers in detecting rhinovirus infection ...
HIV patients are at high risk of developing lung disease of infectious and non-infectious etiology, which is the main cause of morbidity and mortality in this group [2–11,23,42,43]. The spectrum of respiratory disorders associated with HIV infection has changed over the past decade with bact...
First, we tested very few bronchoalveolar lavage fluid samples from patients with acute respiratory infection (n = 6) and very few clinical samples harboring rare or unusual respiratory viruses (n = 7). Further validation of assay performance with these kinds of samples is needed. ...