Objectives The purpose of this study was to examine the expectations of patients attending an urban primary care out-of-hours (OOH) facility with acute upper respiratory tract infection (acute URTI) ...

Objectives To investigate if use of antibiotics was associated with bacterial complications following upper respiratory tract infections (URTIs). Design Ecological time-trend analysis and a ...

The rainy season brings a surge in illnesses due to damp conditions and stagnant water, fostering bacteria and mosquitoes.

The new variant of Covid, NB.1.8.1, which has lost its potential to cause severe infection, since May 2023 is considered a regular respiratory infection, by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and ...

Nirsevimab offers consistent and sustained protection against hospitalisation due to RSV-associated lower respiratory tract infection for at least 6 months. This finding provides global health systems ...

Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is the most common single cause of respiratory hospitalisation of infants and is the second largest cause of lower respiratory infection mortality worldwide. In ...

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1 Introduction. Respiratory infections (RIs), a broad term including both upper RIs (e.g., common colds, pharyngitis, and sinusitis) and lower RIs (e.g., pneumonia and bronchitis), are a significant ...

A baby's makeup of gut bacteria—their microbiome—which starts to form as soon as they are born, could help protect against viral infections later in childhood, a new study suggests.

Children who developed three to seven respiratory infections had lower relative abundance of Bifidobacterium (log two-fold change 2·1; p=0·049) and higher relative abundance of Klebsiella (log ...