Etiology of community-acquired pneumonia in adults: a systematic review

S Shoar, DM Musher - Pneumonia, 2020 - Springer
Background The etiology of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) has evolved since the
beginning of the antibiotic era. Recent guidelines encourage immediate empiric antibiotic …

Community-acquired pneumonia

DM Musher, AR Thorner - New England Journal of Medicine, 2014 - Mass Medical Soc
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Effect of corticosteroids on treatment failure among hospitalized patients with severe community-acquired pneumonia and high inflammatory response: a randomized …

A Torres, O Sibila, M Ferrer, E Polverino, R Menendez… - Jama, 2015 - jamanetwork.com
Importance In patients with severe community-acquired pneumonia, treatment failure is
associated with excessive inflammatory response and worse outcomes. Corticosteroids may …

Corticosteroids for pneumonia

A Stern, K Skalsky, T Avni, E Carrara… - Cochrane Database …, 2017 - cochranelibrary.com
Background Pneumonia is a common and potentially serious illness. Corticosteroids have
been suggested for the treatment of different types of infection, however their role in the …

The role of the bacterial microbiome in lung disease

RP Dickson, JR Erb-Downward… - Expert review of …, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Novel culture-independent techniques have recently demonstrated that the lower respiratory
tract, historically considered sterile in health, contains diverse communities of microbes: the …

Diagnosis and treatment of community‐acquired pneumonia in adults: 2016 clinical practice guidelines by the Chinese Thoracic Society, Chinese Medical Association

B Cao, Y Huang, DY She, QJ Cheng… - The clinical …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Evolving understanding of the causes of pneumonia in adults, with special attention to the role of pneumococcus

DM Musher, MS Abers, JG Bartlett - Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2017 - academic.oup.com
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 …

Burden of community-acquired pneumonia in North American adults

TM File Jr, TJ Marrie - Postgraduate medicine, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
To determine the burden of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) affecting adults in North
America, a comprehensive literature review was conducted to examine the incidence …

XueBiJing injection versus placebo for critically ill patients with severe community-acquired pneumonia: a randomized controlled trial

Y Song, C Yao, Y Yao, H Han, X Zhao, K Yu… - Critical care …, 2019 - journals.lww.com
Objectives: To investigate whether XueBiJing injection improves clinical outcomes in
critically ill patients with severe community-acquired pneumonia. Design: Prospective …

Severity assessment tools for predicting mortality in hospitalised patients with community-acquired pneumonia. Systematic review and meta-analysis

JD Chalmers, A Singanayagam, AR Akram, P Mandal… - Thorax, 2010 - thorax.bmj.com
Introduction International guidelines recommend a severity-based approach to management
in community-acquired pneumonia. CURB65, CRB65 and the Pneumonia Severity Index …