Colonization Density of the Upper Respiratory Tract as a Predictor of Pneumonia—Haemophilus influenzae, Moraxella catarrhalis, Staphylococcus aureus, and Pneumocystis jirovecii
Author(s) -
Daniel E. Park,
Henry C. Baggett,
Stephen R. C. Howie,
Qiyuan Shi,
Nora L. Watson,
W. Abdullah Brooks,
Maria Deloria Knoll,
Laura L. Hammitt,
Karen L. Kotloff,
Orin S. Levine,
Shabir A. Madhi,
David R. Murdoch,
Katherine L. O’Brien,
J. Anthony G. Scott,
Donald M. Thea,
Dilruba Ahmed,
Martín Antonio,
Vicky L. Baillie,
Andrea N. DeLuca,
Amanda J. Driscoll,
Wei Fu,
Caroline W. Gitahi,
Emmanuel Olutunde,
Melissa M. Higdon,
Lokman Hossain,
Ruth A. Karron,
Abdoul Aziz Maiga,
Susan A. Maloney,
David P. Moore,
Susan C. Morpeth,
John Mwaba,
Musaku Mwenechanya,
Christine Prosperi,
Mamadou Sylla,
Somsak Thamthitiwat,
Scott L. Zeger,
Daniel R. Feikin,
Nicholas Fancourt,
E. Wangeci Kagucia,
Mengying Li,
Zhenke Wu,
Jane Crawley,
Hubert P. Endtz,
Khalequ Zaman,
Doli Goswami,
Yasmin Jahan,
Hasan Ashraf,
Bernard E. Ebruke,
Jessica McLellan,
Eunice Machuka,
Arifin Shamsul,
Syed M. A. Zaman,
Grant Mackenzie,
Juliet O. Awori,
Alice Kamau,
Sidi Kazungu,
Micah Silaba Ominde,
Milagritos D. Tapia,
Samba O. Sow,
Boubou Tamboura,
Uma Onwuchekwa,
Nana Kourouma,
Aliou Touré,
Peter V. Adrian,
Locadiah Kuwanda,
Azwifarwi Mudau,
Michelle J. Groome,
Nasreen Mahomed,
Charatdao Bunthi,
Julia Rhodes,
Pongpun Sawatwong,
Pasakorn Akarasewi,
Lawrence Mwananyanda,
James Chipeta,
Phil Seidenberg,
James Mwansa,
Somwe Wa Somwe,
Geoffrey Kwenda,
Trevor P. Anderson,
Joanne Mitchell
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
clinical infectious diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.44
H-Index - 336
eISSN - 1537-6591
pISSN - 1058-4838
DOI - 10.1093/cid/cix104
Subject(s) - moraxella catarrhalis , haemophilus influenzae , moraxella (branhamella) catarrhalis , staphylococcus aureus , pneumonia , medicine , microbiology and biotechnology , pneumocystis jirovecii , respiratory tract infections , immunology , virology , biology , respiratory system , bacteria , antibiotics , genetics
There is limited information on the association between colonization density of upper respiratory tract colonizers and pathogen-specific pneumonia. We assessed this association for Haemophilus influenzae, Moraxella catarrhalis, Staphylococcus aureus, and Pneumocystis jirovecii.
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