document: Elizabeth Taylor suffered complications including new infections in her fifth week of hospitalization for pneumonia , and will remain hospitalized for about six more weeks , doctors said Friday . The recovery of Miss Taylor , near death two weeks ago with viral pneumonia , was dealt a setback by bacterial pneumonia and a yeast infection , her doctors said . During the next 1 -LCB- months , she will require intravenous therapy in the hospital , they said in a statement released by St. John 's Hospital and Health Center . Bacterial pneumonia is generally considered less serious than the viral pneumonia Miss Taylor initially contracted . That 's because antibiotics are effective against bacteria but not viruses . `` She is tolerating this therapy extremely well and her doctors are pleased with her progress , '' Miss Taylor 's publicist , Chen Sam , said after talking to doctors . Hospital spokeswoman Paulette Weir said she could n't go beyond the statement . Miss Taylor was still in a private room and not the intensive care unit , she said . Earlier this week , Ms. Sam said the 58-year-old actress was improving and would be released from the hospital this week to recuperate at home . During a news conference last month , Miss Taylor 's doctors revealed she was near death on April 22 . The Oscar-winning star of `` Who 's Afraid of Virginia Woolf ? '' and `` Butterfield 8 '' entered Daniel Freeman Marina Hospital on April 9 with a sinus infection , but her condition deteriorated and she was moved to St. John 's for treatment of viral pneumonia . Miss Taylor was reportedly in one of the hospital 's suites . Suites are `` like a small hotel room with a sitting room , a living room area , '' Weir said without confirming whether the actress was in a suite . Visitors throughout Miss Taylor 's hospitalization included her four children , Maria Burton-Carson , Liza Todd-Tivey and Christopher and Michael Wilding . Entertainer Michael Jackson also paid a visit .
extractive_keyphrases: elizabeth taylor bacterial pneumonia viral pneumonia yeast infection intravenous therapy sinus infection
abstractive_keyphrases: st. john's hospital 58-year-old actress