Pneumonia Research Today is a free monthly online journal that collates and summarizes the latest research about Pneumonia, including details on symptoms, viral, bacterial, treatment, causes, walking pneumonia.

Volume 5 (2008), Issue 4 (April)

1. Establishment of a young mouse model and identification of an allelic variation of zmpB in complicated pneumonia caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae.
   Crit Care Med, 36(4): 1248-55. [Abstract] [Full-text]
2. A simple device to increase rates of compliance in maintaining 30-degree head-of-bed elevation in ventilated patients.
   Crit Care Med, 36(4): 1155-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
3. Efficacy and safety of intravenous infusion of doripenem versus imipenem in ventilator-associated pneumonia: a multicenter, randomized study.
   Crit Care Med, 36(4): 1089-96. [Abstract] [Full-text]
4. Antipsychotic drug use and risk of pneumonia in elderly people.
   J Am Geriatr Soc, 56(4): 661-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
5. In situ growth rates and biofilm development of Pseudomonas aeruginosa populations in chronic lung infections.
   J Bacteriol, 190(8): 2767-76. [Abstract] [Full-text]
6. In vivo growth of Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains PAO1 and PA14 and the hypervirulent strain LESB58 in a rat model of chronic lung infection.
   J Bacteriol, 190(8): 2804-13. [Abstract] [Full-text]
7. Procoagulant activity in children with community acquired pneumonia, pleural effusion and empyema.
   Pediatr Pulmonol, 43(5): 472-5. [Abstract] [Full-text]
8. The outcome of infants younger than 6 months requiring ventilation for pneumonia caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
   Pediatr Pulmonol, 43(5): 505-10. [Abstract] [Full-text]
9. Fatal levofloxacin failure in treatment of a bacteremic patient infected with Streptococcus pneumoniae with a preexisting parC mutation.
   J Clin Microbiol, 46(4): 1558-60. [Abstract] [Full-text]
10. Methylprednisolone fails to preserve pulmonary surfactant and blood-air barrier integrity in a porcine cardiopulmonary bypass model.
    J Surg Res, 146(1): 57-65. [Abstract] [Full-text]
11. Reactive oxygen species regulate neutrophil recruitment and survival in pneumococcal pneumonia.
    Am J Respir Crit Care Med, 177(8): 887-95. [Abstract] [Full-text]
12. Two-dimensional gel electrophoresis analysis in simultaneous influenza pneumonia and bacterial infection in mice.
    Clin Exp Immunol, 152(2): 364-71. [Abstract] [Full-text]
13. Sequential exposure to carbon nanotubes and bacteria enhances pulmonary inflammation and infectivity.
    Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol, 38(5): 579-90. [Abstract] [Full-text]
14. Role of interleukin-6 in bleomycin-induced lung inflammatory changes in mice.
    Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol, 38(5): 566-71. [Abstract] [Full-text]
15. The etiology of community-acquired pneumonia in Australia: why penicillin plus doxycycline or a macrolide is the most appropriate therapy.
    Clin Infect Dis, 46(10): 1513-21. [Abstract] [Full-text]
16. Moxifloxacin monotherapy is effective in hospitalized patients with community-acquired pneumonia: the MOTIV study--a randomized clinical trial.
    Clin Infect Dis, 46(10): 1499-509. [Abstract] [Full-text]
17. Invasive pulmonary infection due to Trichoderma longibrachiatum mimicking invasive Aspergillosis in a neutropenic patient successfully treated with voriconazole combined with caspofungin.
    Clin Infect Dis, 46(10): e116-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
18. Thioredoxin-1 ameliorates cigarette smoke-induced lung inflammation and emphysema in mice.
    J Pharmacol Exp Ther, 325(2): 380-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
19. Lipooligosaccharides containing phosphorylcholine delay pulmonary clearance of nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae.
    Infect Immun, 76(5): 2037-43. [Abstract] [Full-text]
20. Interleukin-12 and host defense against murine Pneumocystis pneumonia.
    Infect Immun, 76(5): 2130-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
21. Does 3-day course of oral amoxycillin benefit children of non-severe pneumonia with wheeze: a multicentric randomised controlled trial.
    PLoS ONE, 3(4): e1991. [Abstract] [Full-text]
22. Physician's case volume of intensive care unit pneumonia admissions and in-hospital mortality.
    Am J Respir Crit Care Med, 177(9): 989-94. [Abstract] [Full-text]
23. The acute proinflammatory and prothrombotic effects of pulmonary exposure to rutile TiO2 nanorods in rats.
    Exp Biol Med (Maywood), 233(5): 610-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
24. Evidence-based emergency medicine/critically appraised topic. Evidence behind the 4-hour rule for initiation of antibiotic therapy in community-acquired pneumonia.
    Ann Emerg Med, 51(5): 651-62, 662.e1-2. [Abstract] [Full-text]
25. Second-line salvage treatment of AIDS-associated Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia: a case series and systematic review.
    J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr, 48(1): 63-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
26. Association between early life history of respiratory disease and morbidity and mortality in adulthood.
    Thorax, 63(5): 423-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
27. Markers of treatment failure in hospitalised community acquired pneumonia.
    Thorax, 63(5): 447-52. [Abstract] [Full-text]

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