Thomas J. Marrie

TL;DR: 3 patients who present with atypical manifestations of chronic Q fever are described, including a 43-year-old man whose site of chronicQ fever was the central nervous system, a 53- year-old woman who underwent coronary angioplasty 6 days before the onset of symptoms of acute Q fever and within 4 months had serologic evidence consistent with chronic Q Fever.

TL;DR: A single clone of Streptococcus pneumoniae serotype 5 caused this epidemic of diarrhoea, vomiting, and encephalitis in the 1970s and 80s.

TL;DR: Because recent surveillance studies suggest these pathogens are common and until there is the availability of accurate, cost-effective, and easily interpreted laboratory tests to provide the etiologic diagnosis at the time of point of care, empiric therapy of atypical pathogens is supported.

TL;DR: Areas for urgent research attention in patients with NHAP are: proper studies to define the microbiological aetiology of NHAP, randomised controlled clinical trials of sufficient size to determine whether one antibiotic regimen is superior to another, and end-of-life decision making in the nursing home population.

TL;DR: A substantial number of patients with community-acquired pneumonia who are at high risk of mortality (risk classes IV and V) can be safely treated at home, and factors that help clinicians to select this subset of patients are discussed.