We know this from blood tests done on people ... to treat bacterial secondary infections, pneumococcal vaccines as a preventive measure against pneumonia and, of course, personal protective ...

Septic shock was defined as a systolic blood pressure of <90 mm Hg and peripheral hypoperfusion with the need for vasopressors for >4 h after fluid replacement. Results: 1041 patients with ...

Blood cultures (blood tests done to see if bacteria are present ... and then travel to other regions of the body. With pneumococcal pneumonia, up to 25% to 30% of people will have bacteremia. With ...

high blood pressure, heart disease, or chronic lung conditions are also at greater risk. While influenza and pneumococcal pneumonia may share some symptoms, the latter is more severe and often ...

The strongest predictors of mortality, at least in community-acquired pneumonia, are BUN greater than 20mg/dL, respiratory rate greater than 30 per breaths minute, and diastolic blood pressure ...

MANY physicians with long experience have been impressed with the steady decline in the occurrence of pneumococcal pneumonias ... cent in the death rate from pneumonia between 1920 and 1930 ...

There are around 100 different pneumococcal serotypes, causing non-invasive disease like pneumonia confined to the lungs and invasive disease where the infection can spread to the bloodstream or ...

Pneumonia affects the air sacs, called alveoli, where oxygen passes into your blood. Pneumonia causes these air sacs in the lungs to fill with fluid or pus. It can be difficult to tell bronchitis ...

"There are two main problems in meningitis -- the difficulty antibiotics have crossing the blood-brain barrier ... cells from infection by resistant pneumococcal strains which have affected ...

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