Pheumonia

OBJECTIVE: Dysphagia is a common and severe symptom of acute stroke; however, few studies investigated the prevalence of and risk factors of dysphagia among intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) patients. We aimed to determine the prevalence and risk factors for dysphagia among acute ICH patients, and assess its impact on outcome of hospitalization. METHODS: We collected data of ICH patients from the Chinese Stroke Center Alliance (CSCA) from August 2015 to July 2019 retrospectively...

In this investigation, ferric (Fe) and nickel (Ni) co-doped tin oxide (SnO2 ) nanoparticles structural, optical, morphological, and antibacterial characteristics were synthesised, characterised, and examined. By employing SnCl2 ·2H2 O and the transition metal precursors FeCl3 and NiCl2 ·6H2 O with various Fe/Ni molar ratios, thermal annealing was carried out at a high temperature (700 °C). X-ray diffraction (XRD), UV-Visible spectroscopy, Photoluminescence (PL), FT-IR, and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) with energy dispersive X-ray techniques (EDX) were used to examine the materials' structural, chemical, optical, morphological, and anti-microbial capabilities...

Background: The novel coronavirus disease, commonly called COVID-19, has already killed millions of lives. Our study aimed to identify a safe and right drug for the management of such globally threatened COVID-19. Methods: This preliminary double-blinded randomized controlled trial was done among 57 hospitalized COVID-19 patients in the early stage of their illness. Of them, 29 patients received Favipiravir (FVP) and the remaining 28 patients received a placebo under the standard of care...

Background: Pneumonia, which is an infection and inflammation of an air-space in the lungs due to an impurity. Child mortality due to pheumonia is estimated at 921,000 children under 5 years (U5) in 2015. Objective: To determine the TTR and factors of severe pneumonia among U5 children admitted at UOGCSH, Northwest Ethiopia.with. Methods: A facility-based retrospective follow-up study was conducted on children U5 severe pneumonia from 2015 to 2020...

OBJECTIVE: To explore the efficacy and safety of allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (allo-HSCT) in the treatment of relapsed or refractory peripheral T-cell lymphoma(PTCL). METHODS: The clinical data of 6 patients with relapsed or refractory PTCL undergoing allo-HSCT from Sep. 2014 to Sep. 2018 in the department of hematology, aerospace center hospital were retrospectively analyzed. Complications and disease-free survival after HSCT were observed...

OBJECTIVE: To explore the efficacy and safety of allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (allo-HSCT) in the treatment of relapsed or refractory peripheral T-cell lymphoma(PTCL). METHODS: The clinical data of 6 patients with relapsed or refractory PTCL undergoing allo-HSCT from Sep. 2014 to Sep. 2018 in the department of hematology, aerospace center hospital were retrospectively analyzed. Complications and disease-free survival after HSCT were observed...

ETHNOPHARMACOLOGICAL RELEVANCE: Acalypha is the fourth largest genus of the Euphorbiaceae family with approximately 450-570 species. Several Acalypha species are used as medicinal plants in Africa and in the Mascarene Islands. Almost every part of the plant including the leaves, stem and roots are used as traditional remedies to treat and manage a panoply of ailments. However, there is no updated compilation of traditionally important medicinal plants from the Acalypha genus. The present review therefore, endeavors to provide for the first time an updated compilation of documented ethnopharmacological information in relation to the ethnomedicinal, ethnoveterinary, zoopharmacognosy, phytochemistry and biological activities of medicinal plants from the Acalypha genus which can subsequently open new perspectives for further pharmacological research...

The article analyzed 60 patients with community-aquired pneumonia from ages 6 to 18 years. The dependences of trace levels of zinc and copper in the serum of these children on the activity of the inflammatory process. Analysis of survey results showed that in children with community-aquired pneumonia was observed imbalance of trace elements Zn, Cu. Severity of such violations depended mainly on severity disease and to a lesser extent on age. Normalization of detected metabolic microelement content in a period of convalescence practically advancing...

The essential oil from the rhizomes of Pavonia odorata Willd was extracted in an yield of 0.2% by hydrodistillation, and screened for antibacterial and antifungal activity against ten bacteria and thirteen fungi using paper disc agar diffusion technique. The oil was found to inhibit the growth of Staphylococcus aureus, Diplococcus pheumoniae, Escherichia coli and Klebsiella sp at 0.55 concentration. The oil was also found to inhibit the growth of keratinophilic fungi Trichophyton mentagreophytes and Chrysosporium indicum along with Aspergillus sp...

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OBJECTIVE: To determine the safety, tolerance, pharmacokinetics and efficacy of linezolid, a new oxazolidinone antibiotic in the treatment of community-acquired pneumonia in hospitalized children. DESIGN: A Phase II, open label multicenter study of intravenous linezolid followed by oral linezolid suspension, both at a dose of 10 mg/kg every 12 h. Efficacy was assessed at 7 to 14 days after the last dose of linezolid. PATIENTS: Children 12 months to 17 years old with community-acquired pneumonia admitted to the hospital of 14 participating centers...

Streptococcus Pneumoniae is a leading cause of acute otitis media (AOM). For most AOM caused by S. pneumoniae, penicillin is the antibiotic of choice. However, there are some recent reports of clinical resistance to penicillin by S. pneumoniae. The sequences of penicillin binding protein, pbpla, pbp2b and pbp2x, genes of penicillin-resistant S. pneumoniae (PRSP) were more highly divergent than those of penicillin-succeptible S. pneumoniae (PSSP). The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) can easily determine whether an S...

Klebsiella pneumoniae can use nitrate and nitrite as sole nitrogen sources during aerobic growth. Nitrate is converted through nitrite to ammonium by assimilatory nitrate and nitrite reductase, respectively. Enzymes required for nitrate assimilation are encoded by the nasFEDCBA operon of K. pneumoniae; nasF operon expression is subject to both general nitrogen control and pathway-specific nitrate/nitrite induction, mediated by the NtrC and NasR proteins, respectively. Sequence inspection revealed a presumptive sigmaN (sigma54)-dependent promoter as well as two presumptive upstream NtrC protein binding sites...

Human alveolar macrophages were lavaged from surgically resected lungs and from lungs of normal subjects. Macrophages that had been purified by glass adherence were maintained in tissue culture for as long as 54 days. After 3-4 wk in vitro they underwent transformation into multinucleated giant cells. These aged cells had more than 30 times the phagocytic capacity that the same group of cells had had after 1 day in vitro. Phagocytosis of heat-killed Candida albicans was inhibited by iodoacetate, sodium fluoride, potassium cyanide, and low partial pressures of oxygen, suggesting that these cells require both oxidative and glycolytic energy sources for maximal particle ingestion...

The effect of Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection on cell-mediated immunity was examined by two methods: the first method was the tuberculin skin test and the other was the measurement of the in vitro lymphocyte stimulation response to purified protein derivative (PPD) of tuberculin. Twenty-nine patients out of a total of 47 patients with a lower respiratory tract illness caused by M. pneumoniae had a negative tuberculin skin test when first tested. Twenty-three out of 26 patients with a negative tuberculin reaction in the early phase of the illness had a positive skin test when they were retested several weeks or months after the illness...

Blunt esophagectomy without thoracotomy has been performed in 26 patients: four with benign disease and 22 with carcinomas involving various levels of the esophagus (10 cervicothoracic, one upper third, five middle third, and six distal third). Continuity of the alimentary tract was restored by anastomosing the pharynx or cervical esophagus either to stomach (19 patients) or to a colonic graft (seven patients). Esophageal resection and reconstruction were performed in a single stage in 25 patients, and the esophageal substitute was positioned in the posterior mediastinum in the original esophageal bed in 24 patients...

Although a common cause of infection in animals, group C streptococci are rarely noted to be pathogenic in man. A total of 150,000 blood cultures obtained at the Mayo Clinic from 1968 to 1977 revealed group C streptococci in only eight patients. Acute bacterial endocarditis, meningitis, pheumonia, cellulitis and bacteremia due to group C streptococci are described in a host who had undergone immunosuppression (immunosuppressed host), and the relatively few cases previously reported are reviewed. Although severe, these infections may respond favorably to penicillin therapy...

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