Community acquired pneumonia
Subtitle: strategies for management
By: edited by Antoni Torres and Rosario Menendez.
Contributors: Torres Martí, A.; Menendez, Rosario.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Chichester, England; Hoboken, NJ
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780470058091
Subjects: Community-acquired pneumonia; Pneumonia -- diagnosis; Pneumonia -- therapy; Community-Acquired Infections
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Epidemiology of community-acquired pneumonia outside hospital / Theo J.M. Verheij; title: Epidemiology of adult hospitalized community-acquired pneumonia / Mark Woodhead; title: Microbial aetiology and antibiotic resistances in community-acquired pneumonia / Gerard Huchon; title: Microbiological diagnosis of community-acquired pneumonia / Margareta Leven; title: Empirical treatment of community-acquired pneumonia : current guidelines / Javier Aspa ... [et al.]; title: Pathogen directed antimicrobial treatment of pneumonia / S. Ewig and S. Gatermann; title: General pharmacological considerations in antibiotic treatment of community-acquired pneumonia / Francesco Blasi, Mario Cazzola, and Paolo Tarsia; title: Beta-lactams in the therapy of community-acquired pneumonia / Michael S. Niederman; title: Macrolides and ketolides / Javier Garau; title: Role of fluoroquinolones in the treatment of community-acquired pneumonia / Tobias Welte; title: Non-responding pneumonia / Rosario Menendez; title: Influenza and pneumococcal vaccination for prevention of community-acquired pneumonia in immunocompetent adults / Ake Ortqvist.