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Since the beginning of the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) epidemic, pulmonary complications have been major causes of morbidity and mortality in patients with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection [ 1 ] . In addition to the common pulmonary diseases affecting immunocompetent individuals, HIV seropositive patients are prone to other infectious and noninfectious complications.
In most animal studies that seek to test the efficacy of a given preventive intervention, very high challenge doses are used, typically of approximately 10–100 times the infectious dose at which 50% of the animals become infected ( ID 50 ). The motivation for using such high challenge doses is mostly practical: the experimenter wants to ascertain infection success in unvaccinated/untreated animals, which can then be compared to the hopefully lower infection success in vaccinated/treated animals.
Surgical stress and infectious fever are common factors in geriatric patients [ 14].
Moreover, one important source of variation in how infectious diseases respond to climate is the fraction of susceptible individuals in the population.
The findings of this study adds to existing literature in assisting clinicians adjust their admissions criteria and supports the American Thoracic Society (ATS) and Infectious Disease Society of North America (IDSA) recommendations for use of the PSI in initial decision making for CAP patients.