Pneumonia in Goilala
Papua New Guinea medical journal
;
: 119-121, 2010.
Artigo
em Inglês
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| 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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Assunto principal:
Oxigenoterapia
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Papua Nova Guiné
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Penicilinas
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Pneumonia
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Fatores de Risco
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Terapia Combinada
Tipo de estudo:
Estudo de etiologia
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Fatores de risco
Limite:
Humanos
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Masculino
Idioma:
Inglês
Revista:
Papua New Guinea medical journal
Ano de publicação:
2010
Tipo de documento:
Artigo
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