Indian pediatric experts report that Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) causes a significant number of infant respiratory ...

I went home to try to treat myself for the pneumonia, but my health severely declined. All this time I was still living my life with my children, my career ... Doctors don’t really know what causes ...

Hospital-acquired pneumonia is one of the most common hospital-acquired infections in children worldwide. Most of our understanding of hospital-acquired pneumonia in children is derived from adult ...

For over 10 years, IVAC’s annual Pneumonia & Diarrhea Progress Report has tracked the progress against two of the leading killers of children worldwide: pneumonia and diarrhea. This year’s report ...

Objective Parent-reported symptoms are frequently used to triage children, but little is known about which symptoms identify children with serious respiratory infections. The authors aimed to identify ...

Pneumonia is the leading cause of mortality in children under five years of age. Most cases of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) in low-income countries are caused by bacteria. This systematic review ...

Mycoplasma pneumoniae caused 1 in 2 pediatric pneumonia hospitalizations in 2024, with sharp increases seen across all age groups, according to a recent CDC MMWR report.

Keywords: pediatric pneumonia, targeted next-generation sequencing (tNGS), bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF), pathogen detection, treatment Citation: Shang H, Zou S, Ma Z, Liang Q, Zhong Y, Li L and ...

Results 68 articles were included. We identified six main causes of prescribing errors: children’s fundamental differences led to individualised dosing and calculations; off-licence prescribing; ...

More American children and teens die from firearms than any other cause, but there are more deaths — and wider racial disparities — in states with more permissive gun policies, ...

To assess for the most significant predictors for MRSA pneumonia, PSI score, residence prior to admission, presence of other infections at admission, prior antibiotic exposure within 90 days, and ...

Abstract Objective Pneumonia is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in children under 5 years old, with an increasing incidence of parapneumonic pleural effusion. Pleural effusion is a common ...