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
Published Open-Access
yes
Recommended Citation
Naomi J Gadsby and Daniel M Musher, "The Microbial Etiology of Community-Acquired Pneumonia in Adults: from Classical Bacteriology to Host Transcriptional Signatures" (2022). Faculty and Staff Publications. 4685.
https://digitalcommons.library.tmc.edu/baylor_docs/4685