• Most up to date book dedicated specifically to this most common respiratory infection
• Authors are well-known experts in the field
• Addresses a major management issue in respiratory medicine and critical care
• Reviews important new advances in therapeutics, including drug resistance

Preface

List of Contributors

1 Epidemiology of Community-Acquired Pneumonia Outside Hospital (Theo JM Verheij)

2 Epidemiology of Adult Hospitalized Community-Acquired Pneumonia (Mark Woodhead)

3 Microbial Aetiology and Antibiotic Resistances in

Community-Acquired Pneumonia (Gerard Huchon)

4 Microbiological Diagnosis of Community-Acquired Pneumonia (Margareta Ieven)

5 Empirical Treatment of Community-Acquired Pneumonia: Current Guidelines (Javier Aspa, Olga Rajas, Felipe Rodr´Ã„±guez de Castro, Jos´e Blanquer and Antoni Torres)

6 Pathogen Directed Antimicrobial Treatment of Pneumonia (Santiago Ewig and S¨oren Gatermann)

7 General Pharmacological Considerations in Antibiotic Treatment of Community-Acquired Pneumonia (Francesco Blasi, Mario Cazzola and Paolo Tarsia)

8 β-Lactams in the Therapy of Community-Acquired Pneumonia (Michael S. Niederman)

9 Macrolides and Ketolides (Javier Garau)

10 Role of Fluoroquinolones in the Treatment of Community-Acquired Pneumonia (Tobias Welte)

11 Non-Responding Pneumonia (Rosario Menendez)

12 Influenza and Pneumococcal Vaccination for Prevention of Community-Acquired Pneumonia in Immunocompetent Adults (Ake Ortqvist)

13 Adjunctive Therapy in Community-Acquired Pneumonia (Anna P. Lam and Richard G. Wunderink)

Index