BACKGROUND Since the 1998 European Respiratory Society (ERS) lower respiratory tract
infection (LRTI) guidelines 1 were published, the evidence on which they were based has …

Community‐acquired pneumonia (CAP) remains a leading cause of morbidity and mortality
among the infectious diseases. Despite the implementation of national pneumococcal …

Clin Microbiol Infect 2011; 17 (Suppl. 6): E1–E59 Abstract This document is an update of
Guidelines published in 2005 and now includes scientific publications through to May 2010 …

Background. Available data on the etiology of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) in
Australia are very limited. Local treatment guidelines promote the use of combination …

Streptococcus pneumoniae is a causal agent of otitis media, pneumonia, meningitis and
severe cases of septicemia. This human pathogen infects elderly people and children with a …

Background The increasing prevalence of resistance to established antibiotics among key
bacterial respiratory tract pathogens, such as Streptococcus pneumoniae, is a major …

Bacterial meningitis differs globally, and the incidence and case fatality rates vary by region,
country, pathogen, and age group; being a life-threatening disease with a high case fatality …

The last decade has seen a significant improvement in published evidence to show the
clinical predictive value of phenotypic susceptibility testing with categorization of pathogens …

Abstract The European Union's attention to the problem of antibacterial resistance will soon
reach a 10-year mark, but the rates of resistance in Gram-positive and Gram-negative …

Vancomycin-and methicillin-resistant gram-positive cocci have emerged as an increasingly
problematic cause of hospital-acquired infections. We conducted a literature review of newer …