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

About 200 million cases of viral community-acquired pneumonia occur every year—100
million in children and 100 million in adults. Molecular diagnostic tests have greatly …

The British Thoracic Society first published management guidelines for community acquired
pneumonia in children in 2002 and covered available evidence to early 2000. These …

Despite great advances in medicine, the common cold continues to be a great burden on
society in terms of human suffering and economic losses. Of the several viruses that cause …

The identification of new virus species is a key issue for the study of infectious disease but is
technically very difficult. We developed a system for large-scale molecular virus screening of …

Due to the rise of multidrug-resistant infections in humans, phage therapy is gaining
renewed attention in Western medicine. Despite the increasing number of publications …

Objectives. The precise epidemiology of childhood pneumonia remains poorly defined.
Accurate and prompt etiologic diagnosis is limited by inadequate clinical, radiologic, and …

Pneumonia remains a common and potentially serious infection in children. This review
summarizes the problems involved in making the diagnosis and establishing a cause and …

Viral infections of the lower respiratory tract cause an enormous disease burden in children,
and the role of respiratory viruses in serious lower respiratory tract infections (LRTIs) in older …

Background Pneumonia is the leading cause of mortality in pediatric population. The
etiology of pneumonia in this population is variable and changes according to age and …