Legionellosis is the infection caused by bacteria of the genus Legionella, including a non-
pneumonic influenza-like syndrome, and Legionnaires' disease is a more serious illness …

Community-acquired pneumonia causes great mortality and morbidity and high costs
worldwide. Empirical selection of antibiotic treatment is the cornerstone of management of …

The purpose of this paper was to generate up-to-date information on the aetiology of
community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) and its antibiotic management in adults across …

Background Antibiotic overuse in respiratory illness is common and is associated with drug
resistance and hospital-acquired infection. Biomarkers that can identify bacterial infections …

Background Probabilistic scores have been recently suggested to identify pneumonia
caused by multidrug-resistant (MDR) bacteria. The aim of the study was to validate both …

Introduction: Despite advances in modern medicine, severe community-acquired
pneumonia (CAP) continues to be a potentially deadly disease. Mortality rate reaches up to …

Study objective Confusion, uremia, elevated respiratory rate, hypotension, and aged 65
years or older (CURB-65) is a clinical prediction rule intended to stratify patients with …

The role of neutrophil and lymphocyte counts in blood as prognosis predictors in Community
Acquired Pneumonia (CAP) has not been adequately studied. This was a derivation …

Objectives Many adult patients hospitalised with acute respiratory illness have viruses
detected but the overall importance of viral infection compared to bacterial infection is …

Background The usefulness of sputum Gram stain in patients with community-acquired
pneumonia (CAP) is controversial. There has been no study to evaluate the diagnostic value …