Inflammatory biomarkers are not helpful for the individual diagnosis of microbiological etiology of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP ... A PCT-guided algorithm reduces the duration of antibiotic ...

It can be serious because the bacteria causing the pneumonia can be resistant to antibiotics. Community-acquired pneumonia also includes aspiration pneumonia, which happens when you breathe food ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - It is the perfect name for a condition: community acquired pneumonia. The name describes a form of pneumonia that is contracted outside of the hospital. More than that ...

Although often independently classified, the diagnosis of pneumonia acquired in the community and pneumonia acquired in the hospital share many common features. Clinical suspicion should rest on a ...

This first-in-class antibiotic is available in both oral and IV formulations The oral and intravenous (IV) formulations of Xenleta (lefamulin), a first-in-class pleuromutilin antibiotic, have been ...

How and where should this patient be treated? Community-acquired pneumonia remains a leading cause of death in the United States and around the world. Although the diagnosis of community-acquired ...

How would you further evaluate and treat this patient? Community-acquired pneumonia is an acute infection of the pulmonary parenchyma in a patient who has acquired the infection in the community ...

In this issue of CMAJ, Vardakas and colleagues1 present the findings of a meta-analysis of treatment strategies for community-acquired pneumonia. Because pneumonia is a leading cause of death in the ...

But it’s more common to develop pneumonia outside a hospital setting. When this happens, doctors refer to it as community-acquired pneumonia (CAP). CAP is the most common type of pneumonia ...