Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is one of the most common acute infectious diseases. To date, incidence CAP among children was decreased significantly worldwide, mainly due to increasing use effective preventive measures. Nevertheless, remains a cause childhood morbidity and mortality. Pneumonia may develop at any age, but often it occurs in young children, who are more likely have severe co...

background and objectives: infection with human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) results in dysregulation of the cytokine profile. a switch from a t helper 1 (th1) to a th2 cytokine has been proposed as an important factor in progression of hiv infection to aids. the aim of the present study was to assess the level of th1 and th2 cytokines in hiv infected individuals in order to identify the switch...

CONCLUSION A nuanced profiling was achieved by the simultaneous analysis of 44 cytokines in cholesteatoma. The novel discovery of high levels of interleukin 21 (IL21) in cholesteatoma could explain the expansive growth and could serve as future drug target, as for example also suggested for psoriasis. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to analyze and compare the cytokine profiles of choleste...