Community-Acquired Pneumonia

Appropriate Vaccination Coverage Warranted In Elderly

Published in Vaccine Weekly, September 12th, 2001

by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Community-acquired pneumonia has a high mortality rate among the elderly, and authors of a new report in Internal Medicine strongly encourage better vaccine coverage against that and influenza in this population.

When pneumonia is diagnosed, immediate antibiotic coverage of Streptococcus pneumoniae and Haemophilus influenzae is advisable, added Y. Kobashi and colleagues working in Japan.

The researchers sought to evaluate the clinical features, etiology, and outcomes of patients 65 and older who were hospitalized at Kawasaki Medical School Kawasaki Hospital for community-acquired...

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