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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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1g versus 2 g daily intravenous ceftriaxone in the treatment of community onset pneumonia – a propensity score analysis of data from a Japanese multicenter registry
TL;DR: The propensity score-matched analysis of multicenter cohort data from Japan revealed that the cure rate for COP patients treated with 1 g daily CRO was non-inferior to that of patients treating with 2 g dailyCRO.
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Severe community-acquired Enterobacter pneumonia: a plea for greater awareness of the concept of health-care-associated pneumonia.
Alexandre Boyer,Alexandre Boyer,B. Amadeo,B. Amadeo,Frédéric Vargas,Ma Yu,Sylvie Maurice-Tison,Véronique Dubois,Cécile Bébéar,Anne Marie Rogues,Anne Marie Rogues,Didier Gruson +11 more
TL;DR: EnCAP is a severe infection which is more consistent with HCAP than with typical CAP, which retrospectively suggests that the application of HCAP guidelines should have improved EnCAP management.
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Внебольничная пневмония у госпитализированных больных: клинические рекомендации
TL;DR: Special attention in the publication is paid to antimicrobial therapy modes in case of severe community-acquired pneumonia, the criteria of efficacy assessment and duration of antibiotics application are reflected.
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Community-acquired pneumonia in children.
TL;DR: The Canadian Paediatric Society recommends the use of the heptavalent conjugate pneumococcal vaccine, which is efficacious in reducing chest x-ray positive pneumonia by up to 20%.
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Lo que hay que cubrir y lo que no hay que cubrir en la infección intraabdominal
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the appropriacy of empirical antibiotic therapy and the main pathogens associated with treatment failure and analyze the patients at risk of infection with microorganisms requiring broad-spectrum antimicrobial coverage.
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Risk Factors for Clostridium difficile Carriage and C. difficile-Associated Diarrhea in a Cohort of Hospitalized Patients
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Successful control of Clostridium difficile infection in an elderly care unit through use of a restrictive antibiotic policy.
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TL;DR: The use of narrow-spectrum antibiotics for hospital treatment of community-acquired infections in the elderly should be encouraged.