A new study published today in the American Journal of Infection Control (AJIC) reveals that the use of doxycycline may help protect against Clostridioides difficile (C. diff) infection for some patients with pneumonia.
Nov 2, 2023
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For critically ill patients undergoing mechanical ventilation for at least three days, a three-day course of inhaled amikacin reduces the subsequent burden of ventilatory-associated pneumonia, according to a study published ...
Oct 30, 2023
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Containment measures introduced to prevent the spread of SARS-CoV-2 resulted in a sustained reduction in the transmission of certain bacteria that cause diseases such as meningitis, sepsis and pneumonia, according to a new ...
Jul 28, 2023
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For their study, now published in the Journal of Medical Microbiology, researchers from Cardiff University, UK, began by taking mouth, tongue and denture swabs from a group of patients in hospital who had pneumonia and wore ...
Jun 21, 2023
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Xacduro (sulbactam for injection; durlobactam for injection) as a new treatment for hospital-acquired bacterial pneumonia and ventilator-associated bacterial pneumonia caused ...
May 31, 2023
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Secondary bacterial infection of the lung (pneumonia) was extremely common in patients with COVID-19, affecting almost half the patients who required support from mechanical ventilation. By applying machine learning to medical ...
May 4, 2023
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In the ongoing quest to discover which constituents of the immune system provide highly specified protection, scientists have found that a component of the innate immune system is endowed with the capability of guarding the ...
A unique study published this month outlines new ways to protect more of the world's population from vaccine-preventable diseases.
Apr 26, 2023
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Patients hospitalized with pneumonia typically stay on IV antibiotics until they're stable, after about three days, but a new study suggests a different option.
Apr 25, 2023
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A key mechanism of cadmium-linked inflammation that increases severity and mortality of lung infections has been described, offering a promising therapeutic target to limit lung injury and death.
Apr 20, 2023
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