Despite tremendous advances in diagnostic laboratory technology, identifying the pathogen
(s) causing pneumonia remains challenging because the infected lung tissue cannot usually …

Pneumonia kills more children each year worldwide than any other disease. Nonetheless,
accurately determining the causes of childhood pneumonia has remained elusive. Over the …

Diagnosing the etiologic agent of pneumonia has an essential role in ensuring the most
appropriate and effective therapy for individual patients and is critical to guiding the …

Laboratory diagnostics are a core component of any pneumonia etiology study. Recent
advances in diagnostic technology have introduced newer methods that have greatly …

Determining the causative pathogen (s) of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) in
children remains a challenge despite advances in diagnostic methods. Currently available …

Comprehensive microbiological testing will be a core function of the Pneumonia Etiology
Research for Child Health (PERCH) project. The development stage of PERCH provided the …

Abstract The Pneumonia Etiology Research for Child Health (PERCH) project is the largest
multicountry etiology study of childhood pneumonia since the Board on Science and …

Background. Sputum examination can be useful in diagnosing the cause of pneumonia in
adults but is less well established in children. We sought to assess the diagnostic utility of …

Childhood community acquired pneumonia continues to be an important clinical problem at
the individual, institutional and community levels. Determination of microbial etiology is …

Defining the etiology of pneumonia is a messy business. Blood cultures are considered the
“gold standard” for bacterial pneumonia but have low sensitivity, yielding a causative …