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Community-acquired pneumonia
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This article is published in The Lancet.The article was published on 1998-12-19. It has received 1403 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Community-acquired pneumonia.read more
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Optimaliseren van het antibioticabeleid in Nederland. II. SWAB-richtlijnen voor antimicrobiele therapie bij thuis opgelopen pneumonie en bij nosocomiale pneumonie
TL;DR: The Netherlands Antibiotic Policy Foundation issued guidelines for empirical antimicrobial therapy of adult pneumonia patients in hospitals with emphasis on 'streamlining' the therapy, i.e. its adjustment (including choosing an antibiotic with the narrowest possible spectrum) once the causative agent is known.
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Ertapenem Therapy for Community‐Acquired Pneumonia in the Elderly
TL;DR: The efficacy and safety of ertapenem and ceftriaxone are compared for treatment of the subgroup of patients aged 65 and older with community‐acquired pneumonia (CAP) requiring parenteral therapy.
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Antimicrobial resistance, virulence genes profiling and molecular relatedness of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains isolated from hospitalized patients in Guangdong Province, China.
Yingjian Liang,Changli Tu,Cuiyan Tan,Mohamed Abd El-Gawad El-Sayed Ahmed,Mohamed Abd El-Gawad El-Sayed Ahmed,Min Dai,Yong Xia,Yan Liu,Lan-Lan Zhong,Cong Shen,Guanping Chen,Guo-Bao Tian,Jing Liu,Xiaobin Zheng +13 more
TL;DR: It is found that the infectious rate of MRSA was higher among SSTI than other sources and the most predominant genotype was ST239-SCCmecA III-t37 clone, indicating that Staphylococcus aureus which was previously predominant had been replaced by a new clone.
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Anemia and community-acquired pneumococcal pneumonia
TL;DR: Whether the prevalence or severity of anemia is associated with an increased risk for pneumococcal pneumonia or with increased severity of disease in a large group of patients admitted to a single medical center is investigated.
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Streptococcus pyogenes Pneumonia in Adults: Clinical Presentation and Molecular Characterization of Isolates 2006-2015
TL;DR: Streptococcus pyogenes pneumonia had a continuous presence frequently unrelated to influenza infection, being rapidly fatal even in previously healthy individuals.
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