Pneumonia in Goilala
Papua New Guinea medical journal
;
: 119-121, 2010.
Article
in English
| WPRIM
| ID: wpr-631516
ABSTRACT
The clinical syndrome of pneumonia in adults in Port Moresby, the capital city of Papua New Guinea, has changed from the 1970s to the present. The severe lobar pneumonia commonly diagnosed in young adult men, characteristically from Goilala and living in settlements in Port Moresby, is no longer seen. Today pneumonia in adults is likely to be milder and bronchopneumonic in type. Possible explanations for the change include changes in immunity and in the bacteria found in the environment and carried in the nasopharynx of recent immigrants to the city. A change in treatment-seeking behaviour together with the wide availability of oral antibiotics is considered to be the most likely cause of the altered clinical syndrome that we have observed.
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Main subject:
Oxygen Inhalation Therapy
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Papua New Guinea
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Penicillins
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Pneumonia
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Risk Factors
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Combined Modality Therapy
Type of study:
Etiology study
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Risk factors
Limits:
Humans
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Male
Language:
English
Journal:
Papua New Guinea medical journal
Year:
2010
Type:
Article
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