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Open AccessEffectiveness of neutralizing antibody cocktail in hemodialysis patients: a case series of 20 patients treated with or without REGN-COV2
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Open AccessPilot study for risk assessment of aspiration pneumonia based on oral bacteria levels and serum biomarkers
Aspiration pneumonia is a serious problem among elderly patients; it is caused by many risk factors including dysphagia, poor oral hygiene, malnutrition, and sedative medications. The aim of this study was to ...
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Neutrophilic inflammation is associated with poorly controlled asthma. Serum levels of sST2, a soluble IL-33 receptor, increase in neutrophilic lung diseases. We hypothesized that high serum sST2 levels in sta...
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We studied the diagnostic value of cytokines, including vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β), and interleukin-8 (IL-8), and the ratio of lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) t...
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We studied the molecular evolution of the haemagglutinin (H) gene (full length) in all genotypes (24 genotypes, 297 strains) of measles virus (MeV). The gene’s evolutionary timescale was estimated by the Bayesian...
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Mycoplasma pneumoniae Extract Induces an IL-17-Associated Inflammatory Reaction in Murine Lung: Implication for Mycoplasmal Pneumonia
Mycoplasma pneumoniae (Mp) may cause immune cell reactions as pivotal aspects of this clinically common respiratory pathogen. Our aim is to determine if Mp extract induces a cellular immune respo...
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For the purpose of nationwide surveillance of antimicrobial susceptibility of bacterial respiratory pathogens from patients in Japan, the Japanese Society of Chemotherapy (JSC) started a survey in 2006. From 2...
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For the purpose of nationwide surveillance of the antimicrobial susceptibility of bacterial respiratory pathogens collected from patients in Japan, the Japanese Society of Chemotherapy conducted a third year o...
