Prevalence and Risk Factors of Bovine and Ovine Lungworm Infection at Durame District, Southern Ethiopia by Haben Fesseha, Mesfin Mathewos

“…Lungworms are parasitic nematodes of the order Strongylidae that infect the lungs of cattle and sheep and cause bronchitis or pneumonia. Methods. An abattoir-based cross-sectional study was conducted from November 2018 to April 2019 to determine the comparative prevalence and the possible risk factors of lungworm infection in sheep and cattle of Durame district of Kembata Tembaro zone. …”
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Ultrasonographic evaluation of the thorax in dogs with tick paralysis by Erdem Gülersoy, Canberk Balıkçı, İsmail Günal, Adem Şahan, Esma Kısmet

“…The presence of pulmonary nodule and fibrosis might be due to bronchopneumonia and aspiration pneumonia due to regurgitation. The wet lung pattern was associated with a predisposition to lung congestion. …”
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Diagnosis and Management of Oropharyngeal Dysphagia and Its Nutritional and Respiratory Complications in the Elderly by Laia Rofes, Viridiana Arreola, Jordi Almirall, Mateu Cabré, Lluís Campins, Pilar García-Peris, Renée Speyer, Pere Clavé

“…Dysphagia may cause two types of complications in these patients: (a) a decrease in the efficacy of deglutition leading to malnutrition and dehydration, (b) a decrease in deglutition safety, leading to tracheobronchial aspiration which results in aspiration pneumonia and can lead to death. Clinical screening methods should be used to identify older people with oropharyngeal dysphagia and to identify those patients who are at risk of aspiration. …”
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Cholestatic Hepatocellular Injury with Azathioprine: A Case Report and Review of the Mechanisms of Hepatotoxicity by Joseph Romagnuolo, DC Sadowski, E Lalor, L Jewell, ABR Thomson

“…A 63-year-old man with Crohn's disease who is presented developed the rare idiosyncratic form of azathioprine hepatotoxicity, but also had a severe disabling steroid myopathy, peripheral neuropathy, resultant deep venous thrombosis and pulmonary embolism related to immobility, and a nosocomial pneumonia. His jaundice and liver enzyme levels improved markedly on withdrawal of the drug, returning to almost normal in five weeks. …”
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Prognosis of Severe Covid-19 patients after treatment with Therapeutic Plasma Exchange (TPE) by Maliha Khalid, Faheem Feroze, Saad Bin Qamar, Naseem Abbas, Saeed Farooq, Aisha Siddiqui

“… OBJECTIVE: To demonstrate the effective role of plasmapheresis in the treatment of Cytokine Release Syndrome associated with severe Covid 19 pneumonia. INTRODUCTION: Covid-19 disease is a deadly contagious disease with milder symptoms to a more severe form with acute respiratory failure, septic shock leading to even death. …”
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Frameworks for mitigating the risk of waterborne diarrheal diseases: A scoping review. by Chisala D Meki, Esper J Ncube, Kuku Voyi

“…<h4>Results</h4>Five frameworks were identified including: the hygiene improvement framework, community led total sanitation, global action plan for pneumonia and diarrhea, participatory hygiene and sanitation transformation, and sanitation and family education. …”
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Effectiveness and safety of therapeutics used for treatment of experimental or spontaneous <i>Mycoplasma</i> infections by V. A. Agoltsov, L. P. Padilo, O. P. Biryukova, M. M. Ligidova

“…Tulathromycin and tilmicosin have a significant therapeutic effect in the treatment of pneumonia in weaned piglets experimentally infected with Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae. …”
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Type II Congenital Pulmonary Airway Malformation in an Esophageal Lung by Blanca Estela Martínez-Martínez, María Elena Yuriko Furuya, Irma Martínez-Muñiz, Mario H Vargas, Rosalinda Flores-Salgado

“…A seven-month-old girl, born prematurely (birth weight 1000 g) from a twin pregnancy, was admitted to hospital due to recurrent pneumonia and atelectasis. She experienced cough and respiratory distress during feeding. …”
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The Human IL-22 Receptor Is Regulated through the Action of the Novel E3 Ligase Subunit FBXW12, Which Functions as an Epithelial Growth Suppressor by Joseph Franz, Jacob Jerome, Travis Lear, Qiaoke Gong, Nathaniel M. Weathington

“…Interleukin- (IL-) 22 signaling is protective in animal models of pneumonia and bacteremia by Klebsiella pneumoniae and mediates tissue recovery from influenza and Staph aureus infection. …”
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Data Mining Models in Prediction of Vancomycin-Intermediate <i>Staphylococcus aureus</i> in Methicillin-Resistant <i>S. aureus</i> (MRSA) Bacteremia Patients in a Clinical Care Set... by Wei-Chuan Chen, Jiun-Ling Wang, Chi-Chuan Chang, Yusen Eason Lin

“…Various <i>S. aureus</i> strains can cause infections, from skin and soft tissue infections to life-threatening conditions such as bacteremia and pneumonia. VISA infections, particularly bacteremia, are associated with high mortality rates, with 34% of patients succumbing within 30 days. …”
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Brain Metastasis Mimicking Brain Abscess in ALK-Positive Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer by Toshio Sakatani, Hidenori Kage, Shunsaku Takayanagi, Kaoru Watanabe, Yoshihisa Hiraishi, Aya Shinozaki-Ushiku, Shota Tanaka, Tetsuo Ushiku, Nobuhito Saito, Takahide Nagase

“…He was admitted for suspected obstructive pneumonia nine months after curative lung resection. …”
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Endovascular Repair with a Stent Graft in a Patient with Aortoduodenal Fistula after Radiation Therapy by Kazuhiko Morikawa, Hirokazu Ashida, Yosuke Nozawa, Kenji Motohashi, Takao Igarashi, Hiroya Ojiri, Yuji Kanaoka, Takao Ohki

“…The patient died from pneumonia 33 days later.…”
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Polyurethanes as Biomaterials in Medicine: Advanced Applications, Infection Challenges, and Innovative Surface Modification Methods by Drożdż Kamil, Gołda-Cępa Monika, Brzychczy-Włoch Monika

“…Despite their many advantages, their use carries a significant risk of infections, including ventilator-associated pneumonia, infective endocarditis, and urinary tract infections. …”
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Fatal Multiorgan Failure Associated with Disseminated Herpes Simplex Virus-1 Infection: A Case Report by Michael Glas, Sigrun Smola, Thorsten Pfuhl, Juliane Pokorny, Rainer M. Bohle, Arno Bücker, Jörn Kamradt, Thomas Volk

“…Also complications to the peripheral and central nervous system, pneumonia or hepatitis are well known. However, dissemination to viscera in adults is rare and predominantly observed in immunocompromised patients. …”
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Modeling and simulation of distribution and drug resistance of major pathogens in patients with respiratory system infections by Li Yang, Ermin Liang, Yali Gao

“…Results The most common pathogens were Streptococcus pneumoniae (30%), Haemophilus influenzae (20%), Pseudomonas aeruginosa (15%), Staphylococcus aureus (10%) and Klebsiella pneumoniae (10%). …”
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Comparative Analysis of Clinical Characteristics and Antimicrobial Resistance Between <i>Acinetobacter baumannii</i> and Other <i>Acinetobacter</i> Species by Si-Ho Kim, Seok Jun Mun

“…Female patients, younger patients, and those with catheter-related infections were more commonly observed in the NBA group than in the AB group, while pneumonia and septic shock were more prevalent in the AB group. …”
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MICROBIAL PATTERNS OF HOSPITALIZED HIV POSITIVE PATIENTS ADMITTED IN DR. SOETOMO GENERAL HOSPITAL, SURABAYA INDONESIA by Feriawan Tan, Erwin Astha Triyono, Manik Retno Wahyunitisari

“…The highest prevalence of gram-negative bacteria was Klebsiella pneumoniae (35.15), followed by Escherichia coli (10.8%), Pseudomonas aeruginosa (8.1%), and Acinetobacter baumanii (8.1%). …”
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A Case of Abdominal Aortic Retroperitoneal and Mesenteric Amyloid Light Chain Amyloidoma by Kazuhiro Yokota, Dai Kishida, Hidekazu Kayano, Masahide Yazaki, Yuki Shimada, Yuji Akiyama, Toshihide Mimura

“…After laparotomy, her general condition worsened because of complications of pneumonia and deep vein thrombosis. She died suddenly from acute myocardial infarction. …”
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Diagnosis of COVID-19 from Chest X-Ray Images Using Wavelets-Based Depthwise Convolution Network by Krishna Kant Singh, Akansha Singh

“…The network is designed to predict the class of the input image as normal, viral pneumonia, and COVID-19. The predicted output from the model is combined with Grad-CAM visualization for diagnosis. …”
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Applying Deep Learning Methods on Time-Series Data for Forecasting COVID-19 in Egypt, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia by Nahla F. Omran, Sara F. Abd-el Ghany, Hager Saleh, Abdelmgeid A. Ali, Abdu Gumaei, Mabrook Al-Rakhami

“…The response to prevent and control the new coronavirus pneumonia has reached a crucial point. Therefore, it is essential—for safety and prevention purposes—to promptly predict and forecast the virus outbreak in the course of this troublesome time to have control over its mortality. …”
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