OBJECTIVES To assess the knowledge, attitude, and practice of parents regarding antibiotic usage for treating upper respiratory tract infection (URTI) among children. METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted among 320 randomly selected parents attending a primary health clinic using self-administered questionnaires. RESULTS About two-thirds (69.1%) of the parents had poor knowledge lev...

Acute lower respiratory tract infection (ALRTI) is a common illness, but there have been relatively few studies of the bacterial etiology in developing countries. Nasopharyngeal aspirates of 70 children under 10 years of age with ALRTI were cultured for aerobic bacterial pathogens. Klebsiella pneumoniae was the commonest organism (32.2%) isolated followed by S. pneumoniae (10%), E. coli (10%), ...

A great number of agents found in inhaled air, whether in the environment or in the workplace, can cause symptoms and diseases of the upper respiratory tract. Unfortunately, establishing the cause-and-effect relationship between exposure to one of the various types of agents that can provoke such diseases and the diseases themselves is not routine practice among the health professionals involve...

Upper respiratory tract infections are the commonest reason for consultation in primary care. Group A beta-haemolytic Streptococcus (GABHS), the most important bacterial pathogen in this condition, can be cultured from about 30% of patients, more so in children than adults. Clinical features that are predictive of positive GABHS culture are absence of cough, fever, cervical adenopathy, tonsilla...

An outline of human upper respiratory tumors is presented, based on the World Health Organization's classification of such tumors. The discussion and illustrations are devoted mainly to the nasal passages, and emphasis is placed on lesions that are potentially confusing because of problems of terminology or unusual histologic features.

We read with great interest the report of SCHINS et al. [1] on their controlled human-exposure study of chlorine inhalation. The air pollutant studied, gaseous chlorine, is one of substantial relevance in terms of total industrial usage and involvement in emergency release scenarios. The authors referred to "…a paucity of human data on the effect of chlorine on the upper respiratory tract". The...

Aims. To document the antibiotic prescribing rate for upper respiratory tract infections (URTI) in general practice and its associated factors. Methods. Data extracted from a morbidity survey of 150 general practice clinics in three urban areas in Malaysia. Participating general practitioners recorded demographic, morbidity and process of care data for 30 consecutive adult patients using a stru...

It is important to realize during an upper respiratory tract evaluation of the weanling and yearling that there are subtle differences from such an evaluation of the adult horse. It can be difficult to predict future pharyngeal and laryngeal function based on one endoscopic exam of the upper respiratory tract of the weanling and yearling. Author’s address: Rood and Riddle Equine Hospital, 2150 ...

Abstract Anelloviruses (AVs) are ubiquitous in humans and the most abundant components of commensal virome. Previous studies on diversity, transmission persistence AVs mainly focused blood or transplanted tissues from adults; however, profile anellome respiratory tract children barely known. We investigated their dynamics upper a cohort with acute infections (ARTIs). Different to that adult, be...