Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is a major health problem, even in developed countries, being the leading cause of death due to infectious diseases in the USA [1]. CAP has a wide clinical spectrum of severity: up to 80% of patients are successfully managed in primary care, but 1 % of patients with CAP are classified as having severe disease, needing intensive care unit (ICU) admission, with 20-50% dying despite all available support and treatment options being utilized. Streptococcus pneumoniae is the most common cause of CAP, enclosing the subset group of patients having severe disease [2]. Moreover, bacteremia is not uncommon in pneumococcal CAP (20%) and has been associated with increased severity and mortality compared with non-bacteremic pneumonia [3]. © 2007 Springer Science + Business Media Inc.
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Luján, M., Muñoz-Almagro, C., & Rello, J. (2007). Current concepts of severe pneumococcal community-acquired pneumonia. In Intensive Care Medicine: Annual Update 2007 (pp. 133–144). Springer New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-49518-7_13
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