LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS IN ELDERLY PATIENTS WITH ASTHMA

Infection plays a significant role in the morbidity and mortality of the elderly. One population in which infection has not been adequately studied is the elderly asthmatic. This article examines the problems of lower respiratory tract infections in elderly asthmatics in the context of their host de...

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Autores principales: Hunter, Alan J., Bryant, Richard E.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: W. B. Saunders Company. Published by Elsevier Inc. 1997
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7135044/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0889-8561(05)70337-4
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description Infection plays a significant role in the morbidity and mortality of the elderly. One population in which infection has not been adequately studied is the elderly asthmatic. This article examines the problems of lower respiratory tract infections in elderly asthmatics in the context of their host defenses, the severity of infection, and their risk of infection with specific organisms. The role of infection in the pathogenesis of asthma and consideration of prophylaxis and therapy are presented.
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spelling pubmed-71350442020-04-08 LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS IN ELDERLY PATIENTS WITH ASTHMA Hunter, Alan J. Bryant, Richard E. Immunol Allergy Clin North Am Article Infection plays a significant role in the morbidity and mortality of the elderly. One population in which infection has not been adequately studied is the elderly asthmatic. This article examines the problems of lower respiratory tract infections in elderly asthmatics in the context of their host defenses, the severity of infection, and their risk of infection with specific organisms. The role of infection in the pathogenesis of asthma and consideration of prophylaxis and therapy are presented. W. B. Saunders Company. Published by Elsevier Inc. 1997-11-01 2005-06-15 /pmc/articles/PMC7135044/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0889-8561(05)70337-4 Text en © 1997 W. B. Saunders Company Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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