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

Objectives. To determine the etiology of community-acquired pneumonia in ambulatory
children and to compare responses to treatment with azithromycin, amoxicillin-clavulanate …

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

Background Incidence estimates of hospitalizations for community-acquired pneumonia
among children in the United States that are based on prospective data collection are …

Community-acquired pneumonia is one of the most common serious infections in children,
with an annual incidence of 34 to 40 cases per 1,000 children in Europe and North America …

Background. To investigate the etiology of pediatric community-acquired pneumonia, we
conducted a prospective, population-based study covering the total population< 15 years of …

Background. This paper describes challenges in etiologic diagnosis and treatment of
childhood community-acquired pneumonia and the means of addressing some of them …

Much of what we know about childhood community-acquired pneumonia in developed
countries comes from studies in Europe, where approximately 2.5 million cases of childhood …

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 …

Pneumonia remains a common and potentially serious infection in children. This review
summarizes the problems involved in making the diagnosis and establishing a cause and …