The patient described below, who had overwhelming staphylococcal pneumonia, was moribund when placed in an Emerson tank respirator. All conventional forms of therapy had been tried and had failed.

Staphylococcal pneumonia is associated with a huge influx of inflammatory cells into the lungs. A major trigger for this event is now revealed. Protein A, a bacterial surface protein, binds the ...

THE current epidemiology of hospital staphylococcal infection deals primarily with outbreaks in pediatric, maternity and surgical units. 1–8 These outbreaks, as shown by bacteriophage typing ...

Q: I have chronic lung disease and get pneumonia every three or four months. Most of the time they check my sputum and find many bacteria, mostly staph. What is staph, and why do I get pneumonia ...

Pneumonia, particularly caused by MRSA, is a leading cause of infectious mortality. The mechanisms leading to Staphylococcal pneumonia are not fully understood.

The overall death rate for pneumonia in the United States is 16.9 per 100,000 people, and that rate rises dramatically with age, to 27.9 for people from 65 to 74, 98.6 for people 75 to 84 and 414. ...

As childhood pneumonia outbreaks begin to crop up in regions around the U.S., an infectious diseases experts weighs in on possible causes and risks and presents key facts.

What is Pneumonia? Pneumonia is the #1 infectious cause of preventable child deaths, claiming the lives of more than 800,000 a year. Pneumonia is a form of acute respiratory infection that occurs when ...