Community acquired pneumonia remains a common cause of morbidity and mortality.
Usually, the causal organism is not identified and treatment remains empiric. Recent …

SUMMARY CAP due to Legionella, Chlamydophyla, or Mycoplasma continues to be a
diagnostic challenge due to the nonspecific clinical and radiographic presentations. The …

Objectives To quantify the diagnostic accuracy of selected inflammatory markers in addition
to symptoms and signs for predicting pneumonia and to derive a diagnostic tool. Design …

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 …

The primary objective of this meta-analysis was to estimate the prevalence of adult
community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae in Europe …

Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is defined as an acute symptomatic infection of the
lower respiratory tract which in general develops outside of a hospital or nursing home …

Pneumonia is an acute inflammation of the lower respiratory tract. Lower respiratory tract
infection is a major cause of mortality worldwide. Pneumonia is most common at the …

Pneumonia is among the most common causes of death worldwide. The epidemiologic and
clinical heterogeneity of pneumonia results in challenges in diagnosis and treatment. There …

La neumonía adquirida en la comunidad (NAC) es una enfermedad infecciosa respiratoria
aguda que tiene una incidencia que oscila entre 3 y 8 casos por 1.000 habitantes por año …

Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality
worldwide, affecting approximately 5.6 million patients annually in the USA, where the …