The five main findings emerging from this prospective trial in burns are the following: (1) practically all pneumonias (95%) were endogenous, both primary and secondary; (2) more than half of the burn ...

Haemophilus influenzae, a bacterium that’s a common cause of pneumonia and meningitis, has developed signs that it may be on a path toward resistance to an important line of antibiotics, scientists ...

Background. Precise etiologic diagnosis in pediatric community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) remains challenging. Methods. We conducted a retrospective study of CAP etiology in 2 groups of pediatric ...

For older (> 60 years) outpatients, the likely causative organisms are S pneumoniae, respiratory viruses, and Haemophilus influenzae (especially in smokers). Aerobic gram-negative bacilli including P ...

(WXYZ) — In today’s Health Alert, the Detroit Public Schools Community District confirmed there were cases of Haemophilus influenzae in students at Marcus Garvey ...

Here's some bad news: pneumonia kills many kids and adults. Here's some worse news: everyone, including you, can get pneumonia, as long as you have lungs. Here's even more bad news: pneumonia could ...

The Detroit Health Department has confirmed four cases of a bacterial infection at a Detroit school that closed temporarily last week because of an increase in illnesses among an undisclosed number of ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More than a million children die every year from two pneumonia-causing diseases easily prevented with vaccines, researchers reported on Thursday. Each year 1.2 million children ...

Petri dish with a brown agar base, featuring clusters of small, round, pink bacterial colonies of H. Influenza. Blue handwritten text on the lid. A vaccine that tackles the bacteria that cause up to ...

A study surveying the genetic variation of a bacterium that causes pneumonia and middle-ear infections in children sheds new light on the transmission and evolution of the species. A new study reveals ...