Article: Bacterial pneumonia and pandemic influenza planning.(PERSPECTIVE)

Article: Anthrax, Pneumonia or the Flu - Tools for a Rapid Answer.
Business Wire;  November 5, 2001 ;     700+ words ......patients with flu-like symptoms. Bacterial pneumonia, the flu and inhalation anthrax...pneumoniae, the leading cause of bacterial pneumonia, accounts for an estimated 500,000...to identify the leading cause of bacterial pneumonia - Streptococcus pneumoniae. At the...

Article: An untimely - and unnecessary - death. (Jim Henson) (obituary)
Medical Update;  August 1, 1990 ;     306 words ......of pneumonia in this country, and most other forms of bacterial pneumonia are milder, but without proper laboratory tests, it is...York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center. The symptoms of bacterial pneumonia--severe cough, difficulty in breathing, shaking, chills...

Article: Pneumonia
Complete Human Diseases and Conditions;      700+ words ......organisms, such as viruses or bacteria. Bacterial pneumonia Bacterial pneumonia can attack anyone, from infants to adults...the elderly. The most common cause of bacterial pneumonia is Streptococcus pneumoniae (strep-tuh-KAH...

Article: legionnaires' disease
The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English;      41 words ...le·gion·naires' dis·ease • n. a form of bacterial pneumonia first identified after an outbreak at an American Legion meeting in 1976. It is spread chiefly by water droplets through air conditioning and similar systems. See also legionella .

Article: Antimicrobial resistance in Streptococcus pneumoniae, Taiwan. (Synopsis).
Emerging Infectious Diseases;  December 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......study the epidemiologic features of invasive pneumococcal diseases in Taiwan. Furthermore...mortality rate for children with invasive pneumococcal infections was 20.3%, and in 53...to 80% of adult patients with invasive pneumococcal disease had underlying diseases...

Article: Wyeth seeking approval for advanced infant vaccine
AP Online;  March 31, 2009 ;     421 words ......schedule in this country, there's been a huge drop in invasive pneumococcal disease such as blood infections and meningitis, which...In addition, kids often infect adults around them, and invasive pneumococcal infections of the strains in Prevnar fell 55 percent...

Article: Time from illness onset to death, 1918 influenza and pneumococcal pneumonia.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
Emerging Infectious Diseases;  February 1, 2009 ;     501 words ......influenza-related deaths were due to bacterial pneumonia (5). Also, up to 50% of patients...Brundage JF, Shanks GD. Deaths from bacterial pneumonia during 1918-19 influenza pandemic...JK, Fauci AS. Predominant role of bacterial pneumonia as a cause of death in pandemic...

Article: Pneumonia is on the rise. (symptoms, diagnosis, treatment)
Current Health 2, a Weekly Reader publication;  February 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ......pneumonia also has different causes. Bacterial pneumonia is caused by bacteria that even...weakened by viral pneumonia to develop bacterial pneumonia at the same time. Another kind of...determine the type of pneumonia. Bacterial pneumonia and mycoplasmal pneumonia are treated...

Article: Effectiveness of pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine for preschool-age children with chronic disease.(Statistical Data Included)
Emerging Infectious Diseases;  November 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......treatments that are risk factors for invasive pneumococcal disease (1,3). Clinical trials...surveillance system has collected data on invasive pneumococcal disease (12). Participating institutions...and April 1996, and had onset of invasive pneumococcal disease between January 1984 ...

Article: Outbreak of invasive pneumococcal disease in a jail - Texas, 1989.
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report;  November 3, 1989 ;     700+ words ...Outbreak of Invasive Pneumococcal Disease in a Jail...and October 2, 1989, invasive pneumococcal disease--including bacteremic...distribution of serotypes of invasive pneumococcal isolates from patients...

Article: New Childhood Vaccine Targets Meningitis, Other Infections.(Brief Article)
FDA Consumer;  May 1, 2000 ;     380 words ......available to help protect infants and toddlers from so-called invasive pneumococcal diseases that can cause brain damage and even death...vaccines. Prevnar was 100 percent effective in preventing invasive pneumococcal disease caused by the seven strains of pneumococcus in...

Article: Erythromycin-nonsusceptible Streptococcus pneumoniae in children, 1999-2001.(DISPATCHES)
Emerging Infectious Diseases;  June 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......active, laboratory surveillance for invasive pneumococcal disease. Approximately 15 million...seasons from 1995 to 2001. Cases of invasive pneumococcal disease with an erythromycin MIC...respectively (12). Most cases of invasive pneumococcal disease occurred in 3 geographic...

Article: Resistance of Streptococcus pneumoniae to Fluoroquinolones -- United States, 1995-1999.
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report;  September 21, 2001 ;     700+ words ......fluoroquinolones in the United States, invasive pneumococcal disease surveillance data were...population-based surveillance system for invasive pneumococcal disease conducted in selected areas...population: 17.3 million). A case of invasive pneumococcal disease was defined as ...

Article: Death linked to disease in rental spa.
Pool & Spa News;  July 25, 2005 ;     73 words ......died of Legionnaires' disease after returning home from a vacation in North Carolina. Legionnaires' disease is a form of bacterial pneumonia that grows in hot water. Officials in North Carolina's health department said they found traces of the bacterium inside...