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...

Table of Contents:

• Diagnosis and treatment of community acquired pneumonia - the German perspective
• Detection of respiratory bacterial pathogens
• Viral pathogens and epidemiology, detection, therapy and resistance
• Resistance in Streptococcus pneumoniae
• Influenza
• Pathogenesis of Chlamydophila pneumoniae infections — epidemiology, immunity, cell biology, virulence factors
• Legionnaires’ disease and its agent Legionella pneumophila
• Pathogenesis of Streptococcus pneumoniae infections:adaptive immunity, innate immunity, cell biology, virulence factors
• Pathogenesis of Mycoplasma pneumoniae infections:adaptive immunity, innate immunity, cell biology, and virulence factors
• Community-acquired pneumonia: paving the way towards new vaccination concepts.