Clinical Practice Guidelines Versus Actual Clinical Practice: The Pneumonia Paradigm.
Published in Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
Correlations between lung pneumonic lesions and serologic status for key respiratory pathogens in slaughtered pigs in no...
The incidence of lower respiratory tract infections and pneumococcal vaccination status in adults in flemish primary car...
Published in Acta clinica Belgica
Pneumococcal vaccination coverage of adults at risk for pneumococcal disease is below recommended levels. There is no observational data on pneumococcal vaccination and the incidence of lower respiratory tract infections in a general adult population. The current study had the objective to explore the incidence of lower respiratory tract infections...
Indication for Antibiotic Prescription Among Children Attending Primary Healthcare Services in Rural Burkina Faso.
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Of 61 355 visits by children
Predictors of Respiratory Bacterial Co-Infection in Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients
Published in Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease
The primary objectives were to determine the prevalence of and identify variables associated with respiratory bacterial co-infection in COVID-19 inpatients. Secondary outcomes included length of stay and in-hospital mortality. Eighty-two (11.2%) of 735 COVID-19 inpatients had respiratory bacterial co-infection. Fifty-seven patients met inclusion cr...
Triumph of Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccines: Overcoming a Common Foe
Published in The Journal of Infectious Diseases
Pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) has reduced the burden of pneumococcal disease by the near elimination of vaccine serotypes from countries giving a booster dose at > 9 months of life. Herd protection, induced by interruption of pneumococcal vaccine type transmission has protected children too young to be immunized, children and adults with und...
Tocilizumab in patients hospitalized with COVID-19 pneumonia: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controll...
Published in Journal of Investigative Medicine
Tocilizumab is an interleukin receptor inhibitor that has been used in patients with COVID-19 pneumonia. There are recent randomized controlled trials (RCTs) that evaluated the efficacy and safety of tocilizumab in hospitalized patients with COVID-19 pneumonia. We performed a systematic review and meta-analysis of RCTs that evaluated the effectiven...
Alcohol Use and the Risk of Communicable Diseases
The body of knowledge on alcohol use and communicable diseases has been growing in recent years. Using a narrative review approach, this paper discusses alcohol’s role in the acquisition of and treatment outcomes from four different communicable diseases: these include three conditions included in comparative risk assessments to date—Human Immunode...
Object or Background: An Interpretable Deep Learning Model for Covid-19 Detection from CT-Scan Images
The new strains of the pandemic Covid-19 are still looming. It is important to develop multiple approaches for timely and accurate detection of Covid-19 and its variants. Deep learning techniques are well proved for their efficiency in providing solutions to many social and economic problems. However, the transparency of the reasoning process of a ...
A Deep Learning Based Approach for Patient Pulmonary CT Image Screening to Predict Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) Infection
The novel coronavirus (nCoV-2019) is responsible for the acute respiratory disease in humans known as COVID-19. This infection was found in the Wuhan and Hubei provinces of China in the month of December 2019, after which it spread all over the world. By March, 2020, this epidemic had spread to about 117 countries and its different variants continu...
