Research suggests that a combination of two currently available antibiotics – meropenem and clavulanate – may be an effective treatment for tuberculosis, particularly the hard to treat multi- and extensive-drug resistant strains of the bacterium. (Source: MedWire News - Respiratory)

CONCLUSIONS: Building upon previous findings, exposure to passive smoking increases the incidence of wheeze and asthma in children and young people by at least 20%. Preventing parental smoking is crucially important to the prevention of asthma. (Source: PEDIATRICS)

Conclusions  In this multicenter study of children hospitalized with bronchiolitis, RSV was the most common virus detected, but HRV was detected in one-quarter of the children. Since 1 in 3 children had multiple virus infections and HRV was associated with LOS, these data challenge the effectiveness of current RSV-based cohorting practices, the sporadic testing for HRV in bronchiolitis research, and current thinking that the infectious etiology of severe bronchiolitis does not affect short-term outcomes. (Source: Archives of Pediatrics)

(MedPage Today) -- An apparent decline in pneumonia mortality rates may actually reflect changes in diagnostic coding, rather than improvement in real-world outcomes, researchers said. (Source: MedPage Today Pulmonary)