background: world health organization declared pandemic phase of human infection with novel influenza a (h1n1) in april 2009. there are very few reports about the neurological complications of h1n1 virus infection in the literature. occasionally, these complications are severe and even fatal in some individuals. the aims of this study were to report neurological complaints and/or complications ...

Acute infection of the lower respiratory tract comprises bronchitis, bronchiolitis, and pneumonia. From a clinical point of view it may be diYcult to distinguish these disease entities and one infection may progress into another. The most common pathogens causing these infections are the primary respiratory viruses (respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), influenza virus, adenoviruses, parainfluenza...

Acute respiratory tract infection (ARI) is one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in paediatric age group. Acute respiratory tract infection is infection of any part of respiratory tract. According to WHO it can be graded as mild, moderate and severe. In the present study an attempt was made to retrospectively profile the cases of acute respiratory infections which presented to ou...

Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) has emerged since its isolation from infected children in 1957 as an important respiratory pathogen (Falsey et al, 2005; Hall et al, 2009; Nair et al, 2010; Ruuskanen et al, 2011). Generally, infection is restricted to the upper respiratory tract and not associated with long-term pathology, but progression to a more severe lower respiratory tract infection is f...

THIS subject is both too large and too small for a short paper. It is too large, in that every respiratory virus infection that man is heir to can afflict travellers of one sort or another. There seems to be no special proneness to such infections in those who travel in contrast to diarrhoeal infections. This is probably because the common viruses of respiratory tract disease are very widely an...

BACKGROUND The association between respiratory infection and risk of heart attacks and strokes is well established. However, less evidence exists for an association between respiratory infection and venous thromboembolism (VTE). In this article, we describe the associations between respiratory infection and VTE. METHODS All cases aged ≥18 years of first-time diagnosis of deep-vein thrombosis ...