Pathogen spectra in hospitalised and nonhospitalised children with community-acquired pneumonia.

Background: Paediatric community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is a leading cause of paediatric morbidity. However, particularly for outpatients with paediatric CAP, data on aetiology and management are scarce.

Methods: The prospective pedCAPNETZ study multicentrically enrols children and adolescents with outpatient-treated or hospitalised paediatric CAP in Germany.

PedCAPNETZ - prospective observational study on community acquired pneumonia in children and adolescents.

Background: Pediatric community acquired pneumonia (pedCAP) is one of the leading causes for childhood morbidity accounting for up to 20% of pediatric hospital admissions in high income countries. In spite of its high morbidity, updated epidemiological and pathogen data after introduction of preventive vaccination and novel pathogen screening strategies are limited. Moreover, there is a need for validated recommendations on diagnostic and treatment regimens in pedCAP.

[Symposium: Pneumonia 2010 - state of the art].

Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. It ranks as the fourth leading cause of death in the Western industrialized countries. New insights in the epidemiology and pathogenesis, recent developments in diagnosis and risk-stratification, and current recommendations on prevention and therapy were presented at the symposium "Pneumonie 2010 - State of the Art", held in Kassel, Germany, on the 4.

Influenza vaccination is associated with reduced severity of community-acquired pneumonia.

Pneumonia is an important cause of influenza-associated morbidity and mortality. Influenza vaccination has been shown to reduce morbidity and mortality during influenza seasons. Protection from severe pneumonia may contribute to the beneficial effect of influenza vaccination.

Positive effect of balneotherapy on post-PID symptoms.

Objective: The aim of this study was investigation of effect of balneotherapy after antibiotic treatment of PID.

Patients And Interventions: Fifty-seven patients with PID, diagnosed by laparoscopy, were treated by the same antibiotic scheme (oxytetracycline and metronidazole). After treatment of the acute phase, we studied the effect of balneotherapy (mud baths or mud packs, mineral baths, electrotherapies, and gynecological exercises) under sanatorium conditions in 30 patients.