Evidenced-based guidelines for management of infants and children with community-
acquired pneumonia (CAP) were prepared by an expert panel comprising clinicians and …

Background Pneumococcal pneumonia causes significant morbidity and mortality among
adults. Given limitations of diagnostic tests for non-bacteremic pneumococcal pneumonia …

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 …

Improving the care of adult patients with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) has been
the focus of many different organizations, and several have developed guidelines for …

Known for its clear readability, thorough coverage, and expert authorship, Murray & Nadel's
Textbook of Respiratory Medicine has long been the gold standard text in the fast-changing …

Community‐acquired pneumonia (CAP) in adults is an infectious disease with high
morbidity in China and the rest of the world. With the changing pattern in the etiological …

Before 1945, Streptococcus pneumoniae caused more than 90% of cases of pneumonia in
adults. After 1950, the proportion of pneumonia caused by pneumococcus began to decline …

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 …

The genus Streptococcus currently comprises> 100 recognized species, and this number
can certainly be expected to rise with the increasing availability of next‐generation …

Rationale: Respiratory events are common in hematology and oncology patients and
manifest as hypoxemic acute respiratory failure (ARF) in up to half the cases. Identifying the …