For suspected community-acquired pneumonia, performing chest x-ray as a first-line test, and to a lesser extent CRP testing ...

Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) remains a very serious diagnosis even though we have excellent antibiotics and consensus guidelines for their use. [1] But are the guidelines followed, and does ...

Hospitalization for community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) can lead to long-term health problems that persist months after discharge, according to new research published in BMC Infectious Diseases. The ...

A quality improvement program can improve recommended antibiotic duration in children for both acute otitis media (AOM) and community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) across multiple care delivery settings, ...

Updated IDSA/PIDS guidelines for 2026 provide recommendations for managing CAP-associated parapneumonic effusion in children.

Hospitalization for CAP was linked to a significantly increased risk of developing new NCDs over a 5-year period.

Luis Felipe Reyes and colleagues’ recent Seminar1 on community-acquired pneumonia offers a timely synthesis of advancements in diagnosis and management of the infection. However, the section on ...

The addition of low-dose glucocorticoids to standard care for community-acquired pneumonia was linked to a lower risk of death compared with standard care alone in a Kenyan trial. The absolute ...

Antibiotics revolutionized health care when they were introduced in the early twentieth century, making many severe and often ...