Sentence examples for control pneumonia from inspiring English sources

WHO, UNICEF and partners have developed the global action plan to prevent and control pneumonia and diarrhoea.

Dr Margaret Chan, Director-General, WHO, said: "This action plan provides the strategy to prevent and control pneumonia, which today kills more children than any other illness.

In the present study, we isolated a new bacteriophage (phage 1513) that could effectively control pneumonia that is caused by a clinical multidrug resistance K. pneumoniae in vitro and in vivo.

Continued success towards achieving the Millennium Development Goal to reduce child mortality by two-thirds of the 1990 rate depends on renewed efforts to prevent and control pneumonia, diarrhoea, malaria and malnutrition.

There are still relatively few studies funded by public and philanthropic institutions that focus on tools to control pneumonia such as vaccines, diagnostics and novel therapeutics, and minimal investment specifically for paediatric, elderly care or antimicrobial resistance research.

WHO, UNICEF and other organizations have called on countries to develop plans for controlling pneumonia in the context of their existing newborn and child survival plans and strategies.

Compared with controls, pneumonia cases were more likely to have comorbidities, particularly cardiovascular disease, chronic pulmonary disease, cancer, or recent surgery.

Compared with controls, pneumonia patients were more likely to be older (mean age S. aureus: 60.5 years; P. aeruginosa: 62.8 years vs controls: 57.5 years) and male (S. aureus: 59.3 %; P. aeruginosa: 61.5 % vs controls: 56.3 %).

However, in the current study, in children with recurrent wheezing or asthma but not in healthy controls, pneumonia events appeared to be related to the concentrations of PM10 and NO2, clearly supporting the hypothesis that traffic-related air pollution increases the risk of respiratory infections.

View report: Global Action Plan for Prevention and Control of Pneumonia (PDF) "Pneumonia is the leading cause of under age five mortality, killing more than 4,000 children every day," said Ann M. Veneman, UNICEF Executive Director.

Additionally, OPLS showed good clustering of the control and pneumonia groups, with larger variation in the pneumonia group (Fig. S1).