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Vaccine success signals rethink in pneumonia care
Successful vaccination against the main causes of pneumonia will complicate care of remaining cases, say J. Anthony G. Scott and Mike English.Scientists create NICE solution to pneumonia vaccine testing problems
... is the world's leading cause of death in children under five years of age and poses a serious risk to elderly adults. The leading cause of pneumonia worldwide is the pneumococcus bacterium, which ...Infection blocks lung's protective response against tobacco smoke
... pneumoniae (Mp) in worsening asthma. Mp is a common lung pathogen and the most common cause of pneumonia, but can be difficult to detect because it is challenging to grow in culture. Recent tests to ...Pakistan introduces vaccine to prevent top child killer
... will protect millions of infants against some of the most dangerous childhood infections, including one of the major causes of pneumonia and meningitis." Hib is estimated to cause about 20 percent ...Scientists isolate genes that made 1918 flu lethal
... to know why the 1918 flu caused severe pneumonia." Autopsies of 1918 flu victims often ... the nasal passages of ferrets and didn't cause pneumonia. But one did infect the lungs, and it carried the RNA ...Long-term ozone exposure linked to higher risk of death, finds nationwide study
... ozone level, there is a 4 percent increase in risk of death from respiratory causes, primarily pneumonia and chronic pulmonary obstructive pulmonary disease. "World Health Organization data indicate ...New WHO data underscores global threat of the world's leading child killer
... shed new light on two leading causes of pneumonia, the world's leading killer of children ... million pneumococcal cases, 95% were attributable to pneumonia. While the majority of pneumococcal cases (51 ...Review: Pneumococcal conjugate vaccines effective at preventing child deaths
... deadly disease and saving children's lives." Pneumococcal disease, or Streptoccoccus pneumoniae, is a leading cause of pneumonia, meningitis, sepsis and other life-threatening ailments. It takes the ...MedImmune to present 4 abstracts on RSV and influenza at 47TH Annual IDSA Meeting
... ; Poster Hall A / Poster # 608 BACKGROUND: Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection is the primary cause of pneumonia and bronchiolitis in young children, and also causes disease in older adults. ...First-ever blueprint of a minimal cell is more complex than expected
... than expected. Mycoplasma pneumoniae is a small, single-cell bacterium that causes atypical pneumonia in humans. It is also one of the smallest prokaryotes – organisms whose cells have no nucleus – ...
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