Repeated lung infections

Repeated lung infections

A 25 year old, nonsmoking white male was admitted to the Emergency Department following suicidal aspirin poisoning. After gastric lavage and X-ray examination, he was transferred to the Pulmonology Department with suspicion of right lung partial atelectasis, probably due to aspiration of a foreign body. He had a history of repeated bronchial infections with dyspnoea, since early childhood. Ther...

Risk Factors for Repeated Gonococcal Infections: San

Jeffrey D. Klausner, Donald C. Barrett, Dwyn Dithmer, Epidemic Intelligence Service, Epidemiology Program Office—State Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia; Cherrie B. Boyer, George F. Brooks, and Gail Bolan Department of Sociology, California State University, San Marcos, Division of Adolescent Medicine and Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of Califo...

Gonorrhoea in Manchester; incidence of repeated infections.

The incidence of gonorrhoea as shown by the annual returns of the Ministry of Health has not shown the fall which could reasonably be expected. It is difficult to explain this satisfactorily, since the treatment of the disease is simple and effective. The simplicity and efficiency of treatment may in some ways have contributed to this continued high incidence by allowing re-infection to occur i...

Adenovirus infections and lung disease.

Adenovirus, particularly its E1A protein, has been investigated in the pathogenesis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). High levels of E1A DNA were found in the lungs of COPD patients, where its expression increased with disease severity. In lung epithelial cells, E1A increased intercellular adhesion molecule-1 and interleukin-8 expression, as well as nuclear factor-kappaB activati...

Acute Pseudomonas aeruginosa Lung Infections