Objective: To evaluate the value of clinical features in differentiating between viral,
pneumococcal and atypical bacterial pneumonia in children. Design: A retrospective …

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

Background: Our objective was to evaluate procalcitonin (PCT) and C-reactive protein
(CRP) as predictors of a pneumococcal etiology in community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) in …

Viral and bacterial antigen and antibody assays were prospectively applied to study the
microbial actiology of community-acquired pneumonia in 195 hospitalised children during a …

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 …

Background: A study was undertaken to investigate the differential diagnostic role of chest
radiographic findings, total white blood cell count (WBC), erythrocyte sedimentation rate …

Background. Childhood community-acquired pneumonia is a common illness, but there
have been relatively few comprehensive studies of the viral and bacterial etiology in …

Microbe-specific diagnosis of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) in childhood is difficult
in clinical practice. Chest radiographs and non-specific inflammatory markers have been …

Objectives. The precise epidemiology of childhood pneumonia remains poorly defined.
Accurate and prompt etiologic diagnosis is limited by inadequate clinical, radiologic, and …

The characteristics of community-acquired pneumonia associated with Streptococcus
pneumoniae infection were compared with those associated with atypical bacterial infection …