Background Pneumonia causes significant morbidity and mortality in children worldwide,
especially in resource-poor settings. Accurate identification of bacterial etiology leads to …

Background Differentiating bacterial from viral pneumonia is important for guiding targeted
management and judicious use of antibiotics. We assessed if clinical characteristics and …

Background Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is the leading cause of death in
children. Identification of reliable biomarkers offers the potential to develop a severity …

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 …

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 Discrimination of bacterial and viral etiologies of childhood community-acquired
pneumonia (CAP) is often challenging. Unnecessary antibiotic administration exposes …

We aimed to investigate the diagnostic value of applying cut-off levels of inflammatory
markers and to develop a prediction model for differentiation between bacterial and viral …

Background: Serum C‐reactive protein (CRP), blood white cell count (WBC), serum
procalcitonin (PCT) and erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) were measured in 132 …

Background In developing countries, pneumonia is one of the leading causes of death in
children under five years of age and hence timely and accurate diagnosis is critical. In North …

Objective (s): Blood cultures (BC), when performed in children seen in the emergency
department with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP), are most of the time sterile. We …