Browsing by Subject "Pneumonia"
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Exposure to diesel exhaust particles increases susceptibility to invasive pneumococcal disease
(2020)Background: The World Health Organization estimates that air pollution is responsible for 7 million deaths per annum, with 7% of these attributable to pneumonia. Many of these fatalities have been linked to exposure to ... -
Modelling staphylococcal pneumonia in a human 3D lung tissue model system delineates toxin-mediated pathology
(2015)Staphylococcus aureus necrotizing pneumonia is recognized as a toxin-mediated disease, yet the tissue-destructive events remain elusive, partly as a result of lack of mechanistic studies in human lung tissue. In this study, ... -
Mortality from influenza in Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1920)Since the period of the Great Famine ("The Black Forty-seven"), with its awful attendant horrors of fever and cholera, no disease of an epidemic nature created so much havoc in any one year in Ireland as Influenza ... -
Nanotechnology in pulmonary medicine
(2020)Nanotechnology in medicine-nanomedicine-is extensively employed to diagnose, treat, and prevent pulmonary diseases. Over the last few years, this brave new world has made remarkable progress, offering opportunities to ...