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Community-acquired pneumonia

S.P. Stone
- 19 Dec 1998 - 
- Vol. 352, Iss: 9145, pp 2019-2019
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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.

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Human Metapneumovirus (hMPV) in Acute Respiratory Infection: A Clinic-Based Study in Egypt

TL;DR: Human metapneumovirus is an emerging cause of acute respiratory infection in Mansoura University Children Hospital (MUCH), and may have a significant clinical impact on infants and children and thus, must be considered in etiological diagnosis.
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Ceftobiprole medocaril for the treatment of community-acquired pneumonia.

TL;DR: Findings make ceftobiprole a good parenteral therapeutic alternative for the empirical treatment of CAP that requires hospitalization, especially in patients with risk factors for CAP caused by resistant microorganisms.
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Diagnostic markers for community-acquired pneumonia

TL;DR: Recently, some inflammatory biomarkers such as procalcitonin (PCT), soluble triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells-1 (sTREM-1), pro-adrenomedullin (proADM), and presepsin have been developed as relatively specific biomarkers for bacterial infection.
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PROGRESS – prospective observational study on hospitalized community acquired pneumonia

TL;DR: A strength of PROGRESS is the focus on younger patients with low burden of co-morbidities, allowing a more direct look at host biology with less confounding, and insights from PROGRess will require validation in representative patient cohorts to assess clinical utility.
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Treatment of community-acquired pneumonia in the elderly: the role of cefepime, a fourth-generation cephalosporin.

TL;DR: The clinical and microbiological efficacy of cefepime is similar to that of ceftriaxone in elderly patients with community-acquired pneumonia requiring hospitalization and is an appropriate choice for the treatment of community- Acquired respiratory tract infections in the elderly.
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