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A Randomized Study Evaluating the Effectiveness of Oseltamivir Initiated at the Time of Hospital Admission in Adults Hospitalized With Influenza-Associated Lower Respiratory Tract Infections.

scientific article published on 11 April 2018

A process for analysis of sentinel events due to health care-associated infection

scientific article published in October 2007

A single genotype of Acinetobacter baumannii expresses multiple antibiotic susceptibility phenotypes

scientific article published on May 2014

A worldwide perspective of atypical pathogens in community-acquired pneumonia.

scientific article published in March 2007

A worldwide perspective of nursing home-acquired pneumonia compared with community-acquired pneumonia.

scientific article published on 5 November 2013

Absence of gender-based differences in outcome of patients with hospital-acquired pneumonia

scientific article published on 15 October 2013

Acute myocardial infarction in hospitalized patients with community-acquired pneumonia

scientific article published in July 2008

Acute myocardial infarction versus other cardiovascular events in community-acquired pneumonia

scientific article

Addressing the challenges of refugee health: Experiences from the University of Louisville interprofessional refugee immunization clinic

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Adherence with national guidelines in hospitalized patients with community-acquired pneumonia: results from the CAPO study in Venezuela

scientific article published on 5 May 2014

Adults Hospitalized with Pneumonia in the United States: Incidence, Epidemiology & Mortality

scientific article published on 28 July 2017

Adults Hospitalized with Pneumonia in the United States: Incidence, Epidemiology and Mortality

scholarly article by Julio A Ramirez published 2017 in Open Forum Infectious Diseases

Advances in antibiotic use: Switch therapy

Analysis of pathogen and host factors related to clinical outcomes in patients with hospital-acquired pneumonia due to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article

Analysis of resistance, cross-resistance and antimicrobial combinations for Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates from 1997 to 2009

scientific article published on 06 July 2011

Antibiotic streamlining: development and justification of an antibiotic streamlining program

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Antigens of persistent Chlamydia pneumoniae within coronary atheroma from patients undergoing heart transplantation

scientific article

Association between time to clinical stability and outcomes after discharge in hospitalized patients with community-acquired pneumonia

scientific article published on 17 February 2011

Bacteremic pneumococcal pneumonia: clinical outcomes and preliminary results of inflammatory response.

scientific article

CD4+ cell counts and HIV-RNA levels do not predict outcomes of community-acquired pneumonia in hospitalized HIV-infected patients

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Cardiac diseases complicating community-acquired pneumonia

scientific article published on June 2014

Changing needs of community-acquired pneumonia

scientific article

Characteristics associated with clinician diagnosis of aspiration pneumonia: a descriptive study of afflicted patients and their outcomes ⬇️

scientific article

Characteristics of hospitalised patients with 2009 H1N1 influenza in Chile.

scientific article

Characterization of Chlamydia pneumoniae persistence in HEp-2 cells treated with gamma interferon.

scientific article published on December 2001

Clinical and economic burden of pneumonia among adults in Latin America

scientific article

Clinical outcomes of HIV-infected patients hospitalized with bacterial community-acquired pneumonia

scientific article published on 7 July 2009

Clinical outcomes of osteomyelitis patients infected with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus USA-300 strains

scientific article published on March 1, 2012

Clinical scoring tools: which is best to predict clinical response and long-term outcomes?

scientific article published on 19 December 2012

Clinical stability and switch therapy in hospitalised patients with community-acquired pneumonia: are we there yet?

scientific article published on 01 January 2013

Collaboration with clinical and translational sciences to improve psychiatry training in research

scientific article published on 01 November 2013

Combination antibiotic therapy and synergy in HAP and VAP

Community-Acquired Pneumonia in the Elderly Reply

scholarly article by Julio A Ramirez published August 1997 in Southern Medical Journal

Community-acquired pneumonia in adults

scientific article published on 01 March 2003

Comparative study of the bactericidal activity of ampicillin/sulbactam and erythromycin against intracellular Legionella pneumophila.

scientific article published on July 1993

Comparing posteroanterior with lateral and anteroposterior chest radiography in the initial detection of parapneumonic effusions.

scientific article

Computed tomography measurements of parapneumonic effusion indicative of thoracentesis.

scientific article published on 26 May 2011

Contrasting Inflammatory Responses in Severe and Non-severe Community-acquired Pneumonia

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Controlling multiple-drug-resistant organisms at the hospital level

scientific article published on August 2006

Cost effectiveness of adherence to IDSA/ATS guidelines in elderly patients hospitalized for Community-Aquired Pneumonia

scientific article

Criteria for clinical stability in hospitalised patients with community-acquired pneumonia

scientific article published on 8 November 2012

Cytokines and neutrophils responses in influenza pneumonia.

scientific article published on 16 April 2013

De-escalation therapy among bacteraemic patients with community-acquired pneumonia.

scientific article

Decrease in long-term survival for hospitalized patients with community-acquired pneumonia

scientific article

Development and implementation of a performance improvement project in adult intensive care units: overview of the Improving Medicine Through Pathway Assessment of Critical Therapy in Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia (IMPACT-HAP) study

scientific article published on 25 January 2011

Diagnostic sensitivity and specificity of the radionuclide (indium)-labeled leukocyte scan

scientific article published on 26 June 2007

Disinfectant sprays versus wipes: Applications in behavioral health

scientific article published on 30 August 2016

Duration of antibiotic therapy in hospitalised patients with community-acquired pneumonia.

scientific article published on 19 November 2009

Early Clinical Response in Community-acquired Bacterial Pneumonia: From Clinical Endpoint to Clinical Practice

scientific article published on 01 August 2019

Early Switch From Intravenous to Oral Antibiotics and Early Hospital Discharge

scientific article published on 01 November 1999

Early administration of the first antimicrobials should be considered a marker of optimal care of patients with community-acquired pneumonia rather than a predictor of outcomes

scientific article published on 16 March 2013

Effect of macrolide antibiotics on human endothelial cells activated by Chlamydia pneumoniae infection and tumor necrosis factor-alpha

scientific article published on 17 May 2002

Effectiveness of 13-Valent Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine Against Hospitalization for Community-Acquired Pneumonia in Older US Adults: A Test-Negative Design.

scientific article

Effects of fluoroquinolones on the migration of human phagocytes through Chlamydia pneumoniae-infected and tumor necrosis factor alpha-stimulated endothelial cells

scientific article published on July 2004

Efficacy of a novel skin antiseptic against carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae

scientific article published on 7 February 2015

Emergence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus USA300 genotype as a major cause of late-onset nosocomial pneumonia in intensive care patients in the USA.

scientific article published in February 2013

Empiric therapy directed against MRSA in patients admitted to the intensive care unit does not improve outcomes in community-acquired pneumonia.

scientific article

Endothelial adhesion molecules and multiple organ failure in patients with severe sepsis.

scientific article published in October 2016

Establishing a hospital program to improve antimicrobial use, control bacterial resistance and contain healthcare costs: the University of Louisville experience.

scientific article published on September 2007

Evaluating Mental Health in Cuban Refugees: The Role of the Refugee Health Screener-15

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Evaluation of the effectiveness of improved hydrogen peroxide in the operating room

scientific article published on 14 June 2014

Evaluation of the knowledge-sharing social network of hospital-based infection preventionists in Kentucky

scientific article published on 31 August 2011

Evidence for persistent Chlamydia pneumoniae infection of human coronary atheromas

scientific article published on 29 October 2007

Future research directions in pneumonia: NHLBI working group report

journal article published in 2018

Global changes in the epidemiology of community-acquired pneumonia

scientific article published on 20 June 2012

Googling your hand hygiene data: Using Google Forms, Google Sheets, and R to collect and automate analysis of hand hygiene compliance monitoring

scientific article published on 26 February 2018

Guidelines for Community-Acquired Pneumonia Within Disease Management Programs

scholarly article by Julio A Ramirez published 2003 in Disease Management and Health Outcomes

Guidelines for community-acquired pneumonia in the US and Canada: a practical approach to antibiotic selection

scientific article

Guidelines for empiric antimicrobial prescribing in community-acquired pneumonia

scientific article published on May 2004

Guidelines for the management of adults with community-acquired pneumonia. Diagnosis, assessment of severity, antimicrobial therapy, and prevention

scientific article (publication date: June 2001)

HIV infection does not influence clinical outcomes in hospitalized patients with bacterial community-acquired pneumonia: results from the CAPO international cohort study.

scientific article published on 6 July 2005

HIV-Negative “AIDS” in Kentucky: A Case of Idiopathic CD4+ Lymphopenia and Cryptococcal Meningitis

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Higher clinical success in patients with ventilator-associated pneumonia due to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus treated with linezolid compared with vancomycin: results from the IMPACT-HAP study

scientific article

Hospitalization due to community-acquired pneumonia in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: incidence, epidemiology and outcomes

scientific article published on 26 June 2019

Hospitalization for Community-Acquired Pneumonia

scientific article published on 01 July 2003

How can we improve clinical research in pneumonia?

scientific article published on 20 February 2018

How to choose the duration of antibiotic therapy in patients with pneumonia

scientific article published on April 2015

How to handle mortality when investigating length of hospital stay and time to clinical stability

journal article published in 2011

Impact of age and gender on efficacy and safety of omadacycline (OMC) vs. moxifloxacin (MOX) in community-acquired bacterial pneumonia (CABP)

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Implementation of guidelines for management of possible multidrug-resistant pneumonia in intensive care: an observational, multicentre cohort study

scientific article published on 20 January 2011

Improving Antimicrobial Use: Longitudinal Assessment of an Antimicrobial Team Including a Clinical Pharmacist

scientific article published on 01 March 2004

Improving antimicrobial use in the hospital setting by providing usage feedback to prescribing physicians

scientific article

Improving outcomes in elderly patients with community-acquired pneumonia by adhering to national guidelines: Community-Acquired Pneumonia Organization International cohort study results

scientific article published in September 2009

Incidence of nephrotoxicity and association with vancomycin use in intensive care unit patients with pneumonia: retrospective analysis of the IMPACT-HAP Database.

scientific article published in January 2012

Incidence of respiratory viruses in patients with community-acquired pneumonia admitted to the intensive care unit: results from the Severe Influenza Pneumonia Surveillance (SIPS) project ⬇️

scientific article published on December 30, 2012

Incidence, etiology, timing, and risk factors for clinical failure in hospitalized patients with community-acquired pneumonia

scientific article

Individualizing duration of antibiotic therapy in community-acquired pneumonia

scientific article published on 27 June 2017

Infection prevention and control and the refugee population: Experiences from the University of Louisville Global Health Center

scientific article published on 18 April 2017

Influenza and Viral Pneumonia

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Inhibition of Chlamydia pneumoniae growth in HEp-2 cells pretreated with gamma interferon and tumor necrosis factor alpha.

scientific article

Inhibition of Chlamydia pneumoniae replication in HEp-2 cells by interferon-gamma: role of tryptophan catabolism.

scientific article published on May 1998

Inhibition of oxidative burst and chemotaxis in human phagocytes by Legionella pneumophila zinc metalloprotease.

scientific article published in June 2001

Introduction

Kawasaki-like disease (KLD) in an adult with congenital HIV infection

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Knowledge sharing among healthcare infection preventionists: the impact of public health professionals in a rural state

scientific article

Legionnaires Disease and the Updated IDSA Guidelines for Community‐Acquired Pneumonia

scientific article published on 01 December 2004

Level of Recall Bias Regarding Pneumococcal Vaccination History among Adults Hospitalized with Community-Acquired Pneumonia: Results from the University of Louisville Pneumonia Study

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Long-term Mortality in Hospitalized Patients With Community-Acquired Pneumonia

scientific article published on 01 May 2017

Low CURB-65 is of limited value in deciding discharge of patients with community-acquired pneumonia

scientific article published on 06 August 2011

Lung Cytokines and Systemic Inflammation in Patients with COPD

scholarly article published 18 October 2017

Macrolide Use and Neutrophil Function/Cytokine Levels in Hospitalized Patients with Community-Acquired Pneumonia: A Pilot Study

scientific article

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus resistance to non-beta-lactam antimicrobials in the United States from 1996 to 2008.

scientific article published on August 2010

Methods for computational disease surveillance in infection prevention and control: Statistical process control versus Twitter's anomaly and breakout detection algorithms

scientific article published on 12 September 2017

Microbiological efficacy of ABT-773 (cethromycin) for the treatment of community-acquired pneumonia due to Chlamydia pneumoniae

scientific article published on 25 February 2003

Midregional proadrenomedullin for prognosis in community-acquired pneumonia: a systematic review

scientific article published in November 2014

Mortality differences among hospitalized patients with community-acquired pneumonia in three world regions: results from the Community-Acquired Pneumonia Organization (CAPO) International Cohort Study

scientific article published on 6 May 2013

Multicenter, multinational observational studies: a new approach to studying community-acquired pneumonia

scientific article

Neutrophil function in elderly patients hospitalized with community-acquired pneumonia

scholarly article published 30 January 2017

Nontuberculous mycobacterial pulmonary infections

One-Year Mortality in Patients with Community-Acquired Pneumonia

scholarly article published 18 October 2017

Opioid overdose leading to intensive care unit admission: Epidemiology and outcomes

scientific article published on 30 April 2016

Outcomes in females hospitalised with community-acquired pneumonia are worse than in males

scientific article published on 26 July 2012

Outcomes in patients with community-acquired pneumonia admitted to the intensive care unit

scientific article published on 24 April 2015

PREDICTING ADMISSION TO THE ICU IN COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA

scholarly article by ALESSANDRA GEARHART et al published October 2018 in Chest

Phenotypic differences in virulence and immune response in closely related clinical isolates of influenza A 2009 H1N1 pandemic viruses in mice

scientific article

Phenotyping community-acquired pneumonia according to the presence of acute respiratory failure and severe sepsis

scientific article

Pneumococcal epidemiology among us adults hospitalized for community-acquired pneumonia

scientific article published on 06 May 2019

Pneumonia Pathogenesis and the Lung Microbiome: Back to the Drawing Board

scholarly article published 30 October 2017

Pneumonia and Mortality Beyond Hospital Discharge in Elderly Patients: Response

scholarly article by Jose M. Bordon et al published February 2011 in Chest

Possible role of tetracyclines on decreasing the accelerated aging process of well-controlled HIV patients on antiretroviral therapy

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Predicting Mycobacterium tuberculosis in patients with community-acquired pneumonia

scientific article

Predicting mortality in patients with ventilator-associated pneumonia: The APACHE II score versus the new IBMP-10 score

scientific article

Predicting the need for ICU admission in community-acquired pneumonia

scientific article published on 08 July 2019

Predictive accuracy of the pneumonia severity index vs CRB-65 for time to clinical stability: results from the Community-Acquired Pneumonia Organization (CAPO) International Cohort Study

scientific article published on 23 June 2010

Process control charts in infection prevention: Make it simple to make it happen

scientific article published on 18 November 2016

Processes of care for community-acquired pneumonia

scientific article published on 01 December 2004

Proteomic analysis of differentially expressed Chlamydia pneumoniae genes during persistent infection of HEp-2 cells

scientific article

RSV infection in the adult population.

scientific article

Randomized phase 2 trial to evaluate the clinical efficacy of two high-dosage tigecycline regimens versus imipenem-cilastatin for treatment of hospital-acquired pneumonia

scientific article published on 28 January 2013

Real-Time Enrollment Dashboard For Multisite Clinical Trials

scientific article published in October 2015

Recruitment manoeuvres dislodge mucus towards the distal airways in an experimental model of severe pneumonia

scientific article published on 10 November 2018

Reduction in Tuberculin Skin-Test Conversion Rate after Improved Adherence to Tuberculosis Isolation

scientific article published in 1997

Reduction in tuberculin skin-test conversion rate after improved adherence to tuberculosis isolation

scientific article published on 01 August 1997

Relationship of vancomycin minimum inhibitory concentration to mortality in patients with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus hospital-acquired, ventilator-associated, or health-care-associated pneumonia

scientific article published on 17 June 2010

Replication of Chlamydia pneumoniae in vitro in human macrophages, endothelial cells, and aortic artery smooth muscle cells

scientific article

Research Needs on Respiratory Health in Migrant and Refugee Populations. An Official American Thoracic Society and European Respiratory Society Workshop Report

Risk factors for pulmonary tuberculosis in community-acquired pneumonia

scientific article

Role of Atypical Pathogens in the Etiology of Community-Acquired Pneumonia

scientific article published on 13 December 2016

Ruling out Legionella in community-acquired pneumonia

scientific article published on 6 May 2014

SMART-COP: a tool for predicting the need for intensive respiratory or vasopressor support in community-acquired pneumonia

scientific article published in August 2008

Septicemia in patients with AIDS admitted to a university health system: a case series of eighty-three patients

scientific article published on May 2012

Severity of Disease and Clinical Outcomes in Patients With Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia Due to Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Strains Not Influenced by the Presence of the Panton-Valentine Leukocidin Gene

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Sparfloxacin versus clarithromycin in the treatment of community-acquired pneumonia

scholarly article by Julio A Ramirez et al published January 1999 in Clinical Therapeutics

Switch Therapy in Adult Patients with Pneumonia

scholarly article by Julio A Ramirez published November 1995 in Clinical Pulmonary Medicine

Switch Therapy with β-Lactam/β-Lactamase Inhibitors in Patients with Community-Acquired Pneumonia ⬇️

scientific article published on January 1, 1998

Switch therapy in community-acquried pneumonia ⬇️

scientific article published on 01 May 1995

Switch therapy in hospitalized patients with community-acquired pneumonia: tigecycline vs. levofloxacin

scientific article

TB Test Results May Be Skewed

scientific article published on 01 April 1993

Telavancin for the treatment of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bone and joint infections

scientific article published on 18 September 2017

The Challenge of Predicting Influenza ⬇️

scientific article published on March 9, 2011

The Impact of Age and Comorbidities on the Mortality of Patients of Different Age Groups Admitted with Community-acquired Pneumonia

scientific article published on 11 July 2016

The author replies

scholarly article by Julio A Ramirez published April 1993 in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

The choice of empirical antibiotic therapy for nosocomial pneumonia.

scientific article

The effectiveness of the polysaccharide pneumococcal vaccine for the prevention of hospitalizations due to Streptococcus pneumoniae community-acquired pneumonia in the elderly differs between the sexes: Results from the Community-Acquired Pneumonia O

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The order of administration of macrolides and beta-lactams may impact the outcomes of hospitalized patients with community-acquired pneumonia: results from the community-acquired pneumonia organization

scientific article published on 12 July 2017

The presence of pneumococcal bacteremia does not influence clinical outcomes in patients with community-acquired pneumonia: results from the Community-Acquired Pneumonia Organization (CAPO) International Cohort study

scientific article published on 15 January 2008

The role of infection prevention conferences to build and maintain knowledge-sharing networks: a longitudinal evaluation

scientific article published on 17 December 2013

The role of neutropenia on outcomes of cancer patients with community-acquired pneumonia

scientific article published on 01 October 2008

The upper respiratory tract microbiome of hospitalised patients with community-acquired pneumonia of unknown aetiology: a pilot study

scientific article published on 01 December 2015

The use of heteroduplex analysis of polymerase chain reaction products to support the possible transmission of Legionella pneumophila from a malfunctioning automobile air conditioner

scientific article published in March 2002

The use of large databases to study pneumonia: what is their value?

scientific article published on 12 July 2011

The value of ready-to-use disinfectant wipes: compliance, employee time, and costs

scientific article published on March 2014

Thrombocytopenia and thrombocytosis at time of hospitalization predict mortality in patients with community-acquired pneumonia

scientific article

Thrombocytosis in Patients With Severe Community-Acquired Pneumonia: Response

scholarly article by Mehdi Mirsaeidi et al published November 2010 in Chest

Tissue MicroArray (TMA) analysis of normal and persistent Chlamydophila pneumoniae infection

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Treatment of hospital-acquired pneumonia – Authors' Reply

scholarly article by Daniel H Kett et al published October 2011 in Lancet Infectious Diseases

Tuberculosis is always a possibility (even in the intensive care unit).

scientific article published on June 2016

Understanding the roles of cytokines and neutrophil activity and neutrophil apoptosis in the protective versus deleterious inflammatory response in pneumonia

scientific article published on 12 October 2012

Understanding why low-risk patients accept vaccines: a socio-behavioral approach

scientific article published on 23 December 2015

Using Steroids in Patients with Community-Acquired Pneumonia at the University of Louisville Hospital: Who, What, and When

scholarly article published 18 October 2017

Using cluster analysis of cytokines to identify patterns of inflammation in hospitalized patients with community-acquired pneumonia: a pilot study

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Ventilator-associated pneumonia in critically ill stroke patients: Frequency, risk factors, and outcomes

scientific article published on 23 November 2010

Viral infection in community-acquired pneumonia: a systematic review and meta-analysis

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Visual grids for managing data completeness in clinical research datasets

scientific article published on 30 December 2014

Vitamin D receptor homozygote mutant tt and bb are associated with susceptibility to pulmonary tuberculosis in the Iranian population.

scientific article published on 30 May 2009

What is the association of cardiovascular events with clinical failure in patients with community-acquired pneumonia?

scientific article published on March 2013

What is the best therapeutic approach to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus pneumonia?

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Worldwide perspective of the quality of care provided to hospitalized patients with community-acquired pneumonia: results from the CAPO international cohort study

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