Community-Acquired Pneumonia

• Main Authors: Suttorp, Norbert (Author), Welte, Tobias (Author), Marre, Reinhard (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel : Birkhäuser Basel, 2007.
• Series: Birkhäuser Advances in Infectious Diseases
• Subjects: Medicine.; Medical microbiology.; Molecular biology.; Biomedicine.; Medical Microbiology.; Molecular Medicine.

Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is a disease associated with high morbidity and mortality, with at least one third of cases requiring hospitalization, exceeding the numbers admitted for myocardial infarction and stroke. Despite a broad armamentarium of antimicrobials available, it remains an impo...