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  2. Walking pneumonia cases are spiking among children ... - AOL

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    The CDC said Mycoplasma cases seem to have peaked in mid-August but remain high. According to the Cleveland Clinic , walking pneumonia is a typically mild lung infection or mild form of pneumonia ...

  3. CDC lowers recommendation age for pneumonia vaccine to adults ...

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    Doctors have long urged people ages 50 and older to get a shot to protect against bacterial pneumonia. ... an independent group of advisers to the CDC voted 14 to 1 to lower the age for routine ...

  4. Pneumococcal pneumonia - Wikipedia

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    It is the most common bacterial pneumonia found in adults, the most common type of community-acquired pneumonia, and one of the common types of pneumococcal infection. The estimated number of Americans with pneumococcal pneumonia is 900,000 annually, with almost 400,000 cases hospitalized and fatalities accounting for 5-7% of these cases. [2]

  5. Some hospitals seeing increase in RSV, 'walking pneumonia ...

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    For the week ending Nov. 2, the latest for which CDC data is available, 2.8% of all pneumonia-associated ED visits led to an M. pneumoniae diagnosis, up from just 2% at the end of September.

  6. Community-acquired pneumonia - Wikipedia

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    Current treatment guidelines recommend a beta-lactam, like amoxicillin, and a macrolide, like azithromycin or clarithromycin, or a quinolone, such as levofloxacin. Doxycycline is the antibiotic of choice in the UK for atypical bacteria, due to increased Clostridioides difficile infection in hospital patients linked to the increased use of ...

  7. Infection prevention and control - Wikipedia

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    The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) state that "It is well documented that the most important measure for preventing the spread of pathogens is effective handwashing". [7] In the developed world, hand washing is mandatory in most health care settings and required by many different regulators. [citation needed]

  8. Cases of walking pneumonia are surging in kids this year, CDC ...

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    Walking pneumonia is joining whooping cough and RSV on the list of lung infections making children sick this fall. (Imgorthand/E+/Getty Images)

  9. Management of tuberculosis - Wikipedia

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    Management of tuberculosis refers to techniques and procedures utilized for treating tuberculosis (TB), or simply a treatment plan for TB.. The medical standard for active TB is a short course treatment involving a combination of isoniazid, rifampicin (also known as Rifampin), pyrazinamide, and ethambutol for the first two months.