Recommendations for the management of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) advocate
that, in the absence of the clinical and laboratory findings typical of bacterial CAP, antibiotics …

Pneumonia is one of the most common infections in the pediatric age group and one of the
leading diagnoses that results in overnight hospital admission for children. In 2001, 198,000 …

Aim To critically summarise the available data on diagnosis of CAP in children, focusing on
the newest findings and on the need for new studies. Methods Eighty studies on the …

In this prospective, observational study on previously healthy children< 18 years, we aimed
to study the diagnostic ability of clinical features and inflammatory markers to (i) predict …

Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is a common disease in children, and its
aetiological and clinical diagnosis are challenging for physicians in both private practice and …

Objective To evaluate the association between consolidation on chest radiograph and
typical bacterial etiology of childhood community acquired pneumonia (CAP) in the Etiology …

Background: Microbe‐specific diagnosis of pediatric community‐acquired pneumonia (CAP)
and the distinction between typical‐bacterial, atypical‐bacterial and viral cases are difficult …

BACKGROUND: The authors of national guidelines emphasize the use of history and
examination findings to diagnose community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) in outpatient …

BACKGROUND: Host biomarkers predict disease severity in adults with community-
acquired pneumonia (CAP). We evaluated the association of the white blood cell (WBC) …

Background C-reactive protein (CRP) values are clinically useful in differentiating viral from
bacterial illnesses in children, but the regular test is impractical in the emergency …