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Background The joint committee of the Japanese Society of Intensive Care
Medicine/Japanese Respiratory Society/Japanese Society of Respiratory Care Medicine on …

Clin Microbiol Infect 2011; 17 (Suppl. 6): E1–E59 Abstract This document is an update of
Guidelines published in 2005 and now includes scientific publications through to May 2010 …

SYNOPSIS OF RECOMMENDATIONS A summary of the initial management of patients
admitted to hospital with suspected community acquired pneumonia (CAP) is presented in …

Improving the care of adult patients with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) has been
the focus of many different organizations, and several have developed guidelines for …

Background Pneumococcal pneumonia causes significant morbidity and mortality among
adults. Given limitations of diagnostic tests for non-bacteremic pneumococcal pneumonia …

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 …

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 …

This seminar reviews important features and management issues of community-acquired
pneumonia (CAP) that are especially relevant to immunocompetent adults in light of new …

Pneumonia is a major medical problem in the very old. The increased frequency and
severity of pneumonia in the elderly is largely explained by the ageing of organ systems (in …