pneumonia is the leading cause of mortality in young children worldwide. early diagnosis and empiric antibacterial therapy is an important strategy to improve outcome. the world health organization (who) has developed case management guidelines to reduce pneumonia-related deaths through early diagnosis and antibiotic treatment. for management purpose, pneumonia is subclassified by its severity....

most nosocomial infections have been attributed to nonfermenters, particularly acinetobacter baumannii which causes serious infections like pneumonia, meningitis, and sepsis. the purpose of this study was to report our experience with five cases of a. baumannii-related pneumonia infections, seen in a regional hospital, karaj, iran. five cases were identified as having a. baumannii- related pneu...

there is a lack of large, prospective epidemiologic studies concerning acute lung injury (ali) and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ards) in pediatric population. to determine the different causes of respiratory distress in children, we prepared a retrospective study and included the whole 567 children with respiratory distress referred to 17-shahrivar hospital, rasht, guilan. using their m...

meningitis, pneumonia, and sepsis in newborns and young infants (age < 60 days) are the main causes of childhood mortality in developing countries. even though streptococcus pneumonia is the most commonly detected microorganism in pediatric bacterial meningitis, it is rare in newborn infants. the following article reports a case of pneumococcal meningitis that was detected early in a newborn in...

  I n a survey of pneumonia due to Mycoplasma 282 out of 12168 ovine and caprine lung condemnation were collected (2.32%). Mycoplasma spp. has been isolated from pneumonic cases in 4 sheep and 2 goats. PCR studies were confirmed the genus of Mycoplasma although attempting for identification of strains M. mycoides, M. capricolum/caprine pleuropneumonia and M. arginin were in failure. The lesions...

introduction: pneumonia is an inflammation of the parenchyma of the lungs. most cases of pneumonia are caused by microorganisms, but there are several non-infectious causes accordingly. pneumonia is a considerable cause of mortality in childhood, throughout the world, particularly in developing countries. this study, according to this important matter, evaluated & inspected all of the patients ...

Methods All immunocompetent patients over 18 years old admitted to the Intensive Care Unit of the Hospital Universitario and Politecnico la Fe (Valencia, Spain), undergoing mechanical ventilation for more than 48 hours were included. Patients with clinical suspicion of ventilatorassociated respiratory infection were considered as cases and compared with a selection of controls matched by age, c...

background bronchiolitis is the most common lower respiratory tract infection in infants, which is often due to respiratory syncytial virus. the treatment is supportive; therefore, epidemiology, clinical, laboratory, and radiologic findings can help to prevent inappropriate use of antibiotics. objectives the aim of this study was to evaluate the clinical, and laboratory characteristics of bronc...

introduction: millions of children less than 5 years old die from pneumonia globally and about 75-70% of these deaths occur in infants. persian and english articles of international and national databases such as “who, scopus and the cochrane, pub med, science direct, wiley, google scholar, sid, iran medex, magiran, med lib and iran doc were searched from 1970 to 2014. result: the factors such ...