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 6 (June)

1. Modulation of pulmonary inflammatory responses and antimicrobial defenses in mice exposed to diesel exhaust.
   Toxicol Appl Pharmacol, 229(3): 310-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
2. Captopril decreases plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 in rats with ventilator-induced lung injury.
   Crit Care Med, 36(6): 1880-5. [Abstract] [Full-text]
3. Inhaled levosimendan reduces mortality and release of proinflammatory mediators in a rat model of experimental ventilator-induced lung injury.
   Crit Care Med, 36(6): 1873-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
4. An age-associated increase in pulmonary inflammation after burn injury is abrogated by CXCR2 inhibition.
   J Leukoc Biol, 83(6): 1493-501. [Abstract] [Full-text]
5. Stimulation of lung innate immunity protects against lethal pneumococcal pneumonia in mice.
   Am J Respir Crit Care Med, 177(12): 1322-30. [Abstract] [Full-text]
6. Detection of occult lung impairment in welders by induced sputum particles and breath oxidation.
   Am J Ind Med, 51(7): 503-11. [Abstract] [Full-text]
7. Pulmonary and blood stream infections in adult living donor and cadaveric liver transplant patients.
   Transplantation, 85(11): 1564-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
8. Status epilepticus and lymphocytic pneumonitis following hepatitis B vaccination.
   Eur J Intern Med, 19(5): 383-5. [Abstract] [Full-text]
9. Guidelines for the management of hospital-acquired pneumonia in the UK: report of the working party on hospital-acquired pneumonia of the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy.
   J Antimicrob Chemother, 62(1): 5-34. [Abstract] [Full-text]
10. Predicting pathogens causing ventilator-associated pneumonia using a Bayesian network model.
    J Antimicrob Chemother, 62(1): 184-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
11. Activity of ciprofloxacin and levofloxacin in experimental pneumonia caused by Klebsiella pneumoniae deficient in porins, expressing active efflux and producing QnrA1.
    Clin Microbiol Infect, 14(7): 691-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
12. The use of leukoreduced red blood cell products is associated with fewer infectious complications in trauma patients.
    Am J Surg, 196(1): 56-61. [Abstract] [Full-text]
13. Initial delay in the immune response to Francisella tularensis is followed by hypercytokinemia characteristic of severe sepsis and correlating with upregulation and release of damage-associated molecular patterns.
    Infect Immun, 76(7): 3001-10. [Abstract] [Full-text]
14. Lung inflammation induced by lipoteichoic acid or lipopolysaccharide in humans.
    Am J Respir Crit Care Med, 178(1): 34-41. [Abstract] [Full-text]
15. Risk prediction with procalcitonin and clinical rules in community-acquired pneumonia.
    Ann Emerg Med, 52(1): 48-58.e2. [Abstract] [Full-text]
16. Computer-aided diagnosis in chest radiography for detection of childhood pneumonia.
    Int J Med Inform, 77(8): 555-64. [Abstract] [Full-text]
17. Molecular characteristics of serotype 3 Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates among community-acquired pneumonia patients in Japan.
    J Infect Chemother, 14(3): 258-61. [Abstract] [Full-text]
18. Panton-Valentine Leukocidin associated with community acquired methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus: a case report and review of interim guidelines.
    Anaesthesia, 63(7): 764-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]

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