Language

English

Publication Date

12-21-2022

Journal

Clinical Microbiology Reviews

DOI

10.1128/cmr.00015-22

PMID

36165783

PMCID

PMC9769922

PubMedCentral® Posted Date

9-27-2022

PubMedCentral® Full Text Version

Post-print

Abstract

All modern advances notwithstanding, pneumonia remains a common infection with substantial morbidity and mortality. Understanding of the etiology of pneumonia continues to evolve as new techniques enable identification of already known organisms and as new organisms emerge. We now review the etiology of pneumonia (at present often called "community-acquired pneumonia") beginning with classic bacteriologic techniques, which identified Streptococcus pneumoniae as the overwhelmingly common cause, to more modern bacteriologic studies, which emphasize Haemophilus influenzae, Staphylococcus aureus, Moraxella catarrhalis,

Keywords

Adult, Humans, Bacteriology, Pneumonia, Bacterial, Streptococcus pneumoniae, Pneumonia, Viral, Bacteria, Community-Acquired Infections, community-acquired pneumonia, etiology, quantitative molecular analysis, host transcriptional signatures, Haemophilus, atypical organisms, bacterial, coinfection, normal respiratory flora, pneumococcus, pneumonia, respiratory viruses, viral

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