In the midst of pandemic (H1N1) 2009 in our region, a five-year-old girl with mild asthma presented to the emergency department of a children’s hospital in acute respiratory distress. She had an ...

The Staphylococcus aureus Panton-Valentine leukocidin (PVL) is a pore-forming toxin secreted by strains epidemiologically associated with the current outbreak of community-associated ...

Researchers at the Texas A&M Health Science Center Institute of Biosciences and Technology at Houston have discovered a toxin present in the bacteria responsible for the current nationwide outbreak of ...

Pneumonia is a lung infection that can range from mild to so serious that you have to go to the hospital. It happens when an infection causes air sacs in your lungs (the alveoli) and tubes in your ...

Physicians in France confirmed a rare and fatal case of necrotizing pneumonia in a COVID-19 patient, according to research slated for publication in Emergency Infectious Diseases. The patient, a man ...

E-cigarettes were initially thought to be a safer alternative to traditional cigarettes, but a recent outbreak of serious lung illnesses and deaths linked to the nicotine delivery devices called that ...

Clumps of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteria Community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) is responsible for an increasing number of pneumonia cases among ...

DECREASED resistance to infection has frequently been described in patients with Hodgkin's disease, 1 and therapeutic agents commonly used, such as corticosteroids, alkylating agents and x-rays, are ...

Dylan Jay Watts was living on the New South Wales South Coast when a violent chest infection overwhelmed him. According to Australian news reports, he died only days before turning 29, with scans ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Aspiration pneumonia is a common diagnosis among patients seen in and out of the hospital. Aspiration pneumonia ...