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Epidemiology of community acquired pneumonia
Despite efforts in prevention worldwide including recent advances in vaccine therapy, childhood community acquired pneumonia (CAP) remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality both in the developed and the developing world. Traditionally, qualifying the aetiology of CAP proved to be fraught with...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7185481/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32362935 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.paed.2012.05.002 |
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author | Manikam, Logan Lakhanpaul, Monica |
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description | Despite efforts in prevention worldwide including recent advances in vaccine therapy, childhood community acquired pneumonia (CAP) remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality both in the developed and the developing world. Traditionally, qualifying the aetiology of CAP proved to be fraught with challenges particularly due to low yields from blood and sputum specimens. In recent years however, new advances in techniques such as enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and polymerase chain reaction have dramatically improved detection rates of both bacteria and viruses. In addition to qualifying the true burden of disease by known organisms such as Streptococcus pneumoniae it has led to the identification of organisms such as human bocavirus which have not previously been associated with CAP. This article aims to provide a brief update to the clinician on the current epidemiology of CAP in this post-vaccination era. It is based on a combination of recommendations from existing clinical practice guidelines, recent systematic reviews and the current literature. |
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spelling | pubmed-71854812020-04-28 Epidemiology of community acquired pneumonia Manikam, Logan Lakhanpaul, Monica Paediatr Child Health (Oxford) Article Despite efforts in prevention worldwide including recent advances in vaccine therapy, childhood community acquired pneumonia (CAP) remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality both in the developed and the developing world. Traditionally, qualifying the aetiology of CAP proved to be fraught with challenges particularly due to low yields from blood and sputum specimens. In recent years however, new advances in techniques such as enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and polymerase chain reaction have dramatically improved detection rates of both bacteria and viruses. In addition to qualifying the true burden of disease by known organisms such as Streptococcus pneumoniae it has led to the identification of organisms such as human bocavirus which have not previously been associated with CAP. This article aims to provide a brief update to the clinician on the current epidemiology of CAP in this post-vaccination era. It is based on a combination of recommendations from existing clinical practice guidelines, recent systematic reviews and the current literature. Elsevier Ltd. 2012-07 2012-06-25 /pmc/articles/PMC7185481/ /pubmed/32362935 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.paed.2012.05.002 Text en Copyright © 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Article Manikam, Logan Lakhanpaul, Monica Epidemiology of community acquired pneumonia |
title | Epidemiology of community acquired pneumonia |
title_full | Epidemiology of community acquired pneumonia |
title_fullStr | Epidemiology of community acquired pneumonia |
title_full_unstemmed | Epidemiology of community acquired pneumonia |
title_short | Epidemiology of community acquired pneumonia |
title_sort | epidemiology of community acquired pneumonia |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7185481/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32362935 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.paed.2012.05.002 |
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