The Los Angeles Times: Customers at the luxe Aria Resort and Casino (home to restaurants run by Jean-Georges Vongerichten, Michael Mina and Siro Maccioni) in the CitiCenter development have been warned that they could have been exposed to Legionnaires' disease since six cases of the bacteria-spread pneumonia have been traced to the Las Vegas hotel.
In the case of empyema, the contiguous spread of pneumonia causes pleural mesothelial barrier dysfunction leading to exudative pleural effusion [ 18].
Over the past year UNICEF has reached hundreds of thousands of children in Rakhine State with lifesaving assistance – including provision of therapeutic food and nutrition supplements to prevent and treat malnutrition, and support for water, sanitation and hygiene initiatives to stop the spread of pneumonia, diarrhoea, and malaria.
The rapid global spread of Klebsiella pneumoniae that produces K. pneumoniae carbapenemase (KPC), especially in the northeastern United States (e.g., New York state), is of major concern (2, 3 ).
Within the space of eight hours, between an X-ray in the morning and another in the late afternoon, the pneumonia spread throughout his right lung and invaded the left.
Rapid spread of plague pneumonia, which is often fatal if not treated with appropriate antibiotics within 24 hours of symptoms, could be prevented by immediate use of surgical masks.
People going on holiday to Corfu are being told to be aware of the signs and symptoms of legionnaires' disease, which is a form of pneumonia spread through water droplets.
Although we did not find S. pneumoniae carriage in the parents and the young sibling of the index case, spread of S. pneumoniae and antibiotic-resistant serotypes from day-care center attendees to their siblings has been reported [ 17, 27].
We have previous reported intra- and inter-hospital spread of K. pneumoniae clones in two Sicilian ICUs [ 9] and the emergence of a carbapenem-resistant K. pneumoniae clone in one of those ICUs [ 10].
In the following days, a victim may develop difficulty breathing as the pneumonia spreads to another lobe.
Here is another example of a lifesaving checklist: In 2006 and early 2007, a highly resistant strain of Klebsiella pneumoniae spread rapidly through Israeli hospitals, involving more than 1,000 patients.
