Epidemiology of Community-Acquired Pneumonia
Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is a common and a serious illness. Streptococcus pneumoniae accounts for about half of all cases of CAP. Atypical pneumonia, ie, pneumonia due to Mycoplasma pneumoniae. Chlamydia pneumoniae. Legione species or viruses, is more common among patients treated on an am...
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| description | Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is a common and a serious illness. Streptococcus pneumoniae accounts for about half of all cases of CAP. Atypical pneumonia, ie, pneumonia due to Mycoplasma pneumoniae. Chlamydia pneumoniae. Legione species or viruses, is more common among patients treated on an ambulatory basis where these pathogens can collectively cause up to half of all cases of pneumonia. Changes in patient and microbe populations alter The epidemiology of pneumonia. Aspiration and Gram-negative rod pneumonia tend to be more common in nursing home populations. The emergence of macrolide- and beta-lactam-resistant S pneumoniae has major implications for the approach to patients with CAP. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-fefa4817caf5494389cfb14635b529042025-02-03T05:44:33ZengWileyCanadian Journal of Infectious Diseases1180-23321998-01-019Suppl E27E29E10.1155/1998/828925Epidemiology of Community-Acquired PneumoniaThomas J Marrie0Departments of Medicine and Microbiology, Dalhousie University and the Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre, Haljfax, Nova Scotia, CanadaCommunity-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is a common and a serious illness. Streptococcus pneumoniae accounts for about half of all cases of CAP. Atypical pneumonia, ie, pneumonia due to Mycoplasma pneumoniae. Chlamydia pneumoniae. Legione species or viruses, is more common among patients treated on an ambulatory basis where these pathogens can collectively cause up to half of all cases of pneumonia. Changes in patient and microbe populations alter The epidemiology of pneumonia. Aspiration and Gram-negative rod pneumonia tend to be more common in nursing home populations. The emergence of macrolide- and beta-lactam-resistant S pneumoniae has major implications for the approach to patients with CAP.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/1998/828925 |
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| title | Epidemiology of Community-Acquired Pneumonia |
| title_full | Epidemiology of Community-Acquired Pneumonia |
| title_fullStr | Epidemiology of Community-Acquired Pneumonia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Epidemiology of Community-Acquired Pneumonia |
| title_short | Epidemiology of Community-Acquired Pneumonia |
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