Community-acquired pneumonia causes great mortality and morbidity and high costs
worldwide. Empirical selection of antibiotic treatment is the cornerstone of management of …

Background Pneumococcal pneumonia causes significant morbidity and mortality among
adults. Given limitations of diagnostic tests for non-bacteremic pneumococcal pneumonia …

Background: This document provides evidence-based clinical practice guidelines on the
management of adult patients with community-acquired pneumonia. Methods: A …

Standard culture methods for diagnosis of Streptococcus pneumoniae pneumonia take at
least 24 h. The BinaxNOW urine-based test for S. pneumoniae (BinaxNOW-SP) takes only …

Pneumonia remains the leading cause of childhood mortality and the most common reason
for adult hospitalisation in low and middle income countries, despite advances in …

Introduction In the time of increasing resistance and paucity of new drug development there
is a growing need for strategies to enhance rational use of antibiotics in German and …

Community-acquired pneumonia is not usually considered a high-priority problem by the
public, although it is responsible for substantial mortality, with a third of patients dying within …

PURPOSE Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP), acute cough, bronchitis, and lower
respiratory tract infections (LRTI) are often caused by infections with viruses or …

We assessed whether multiplex real-time PCR plus conventional microbiological testing is
safe and more effective than conventional microbiological testing alone for reducing …

How to cite this article: Khilnani GC, Zirpe K, Hadda V, Mehta Y, Madan K, Kulkarni A,
Mohan A, Dixit S, Guleria R, Bhattacharya P. Guidelines for Antibiotic Prescription in …