id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-006561-w4s0k75p Fink, D. Blood culture fluorescence rates predict severity and mortality of invasive pneumococcal pneumonia 2015-05-02 .txt text/plain 3377 165 39 Comorbidity was defined as the presence of one of the following chronic conditions: immunocompromise (defined as primary immunodeficiency or secondary immunodeficiency due to splenectomy, haematological malignancy, autoimmune disorder, chemotherapy or radiotherapy within 4 weeks prior to admission), diabetes mellitus (defined as receiving any oral or subcutaneous therapy for diabetes mellitus), COPD (defined as the presence of airflow limitation due to chronic bronchitis or emphysema), current smoker (any number of cigarettes/day), heart disease (defined as prior elective or emergency percutaneous coronary intervention or coronary artery bypass grafting, or New York Heart Association classes III or IV symptoms of heart failure), liver disease (defined as biopsy-proven cirrhosis or past medical history of complications of portal hypertension, including upper gastro-intestinal bleeding, encephalopathy, spontaneous bacterial peritonitis or more Fig. 1 The standard curve for Streptococcus pneumoniae (NCTC 12977 strain) was generated by plotting the mean of at least four samples of each ten-fold dilution (log 10 CFU/ml) against the corresponding fluorescence rate (FR). ./cache/cord-006561-w4s0k75p.txt ./txt/cord-006561-w4s0k75p.txt