Objectives To review epidemiology, aetiology and management of childhood pneumonia in
low-and-middle-income countries. Design Review of published English literature between …

Objective To provide cutting-edge information for the management of community-acquired
pneumonia in children under 5 years, based on the latest evidence published in the …

Importance The optimal dose and duration of oral amoxicillin for children with community-
acquired pneumonia (CAP) are unclear. Objective To determine whether lower-dose …

Complicated community-acquired pneumonia in a previously well child is a severe illness
characterised by combinations of local complications (eg, parapneumonic effusion …

Background Differentiating bacterial from viral pneumonia is important for guiding targeted
management and judicious use of antibiotics. We assessed if clinical characteristics and …

Pneumonia is an infection of the lower airways (distal bronchi and alveoli) caused by both
viruses and bacteria. Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) specifically refers to clinical …

Background There is a lack of studies comparing PCT, CRP and WBC levels in the
differential diagnosis of acute bacterial, viral, and mycoplasmal respiratory tract infections. It …

Pneumonia is a lung infection that causes 15% of childhood mortality (under 5 years old),
over 800,000 children under five every year, around 2,200 every day, all over the world. This …

Respiratory viral infections represent the leading cause of hospitalization in infants and
young children worldwide and the second leading cause of infant mortality. Among these …

C reactive protein (CRP), a marker for the presence of an inflammatory process, is the most
extensively studied marker for distinguishing bacterial from non-bacterial infections in febrile …