January 22, 2009 — Rates of pneumonia hospitalizations among young children decreased among children younger than 2 years soon after the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV7) was licensed in 2000, ...

A new pneumonia vaccine for infants dramatically reduces serious illness in young children and may prevent the spread of the bacteria to adults, researchers report. The first pneumonia vaccine for ...

Local complications from community-acquired pneumonia are increasing in all age groups, but the introduction of the heptavalent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine in 2000 led to reductions in systemic ...

Background: Low-risk patients with community-acquired pneumonia are often hospitalized despite guideline recommendations for outpatient treatment. Methods: Using data from a randomized trial conducted ...

Pneumonia is a Streptococcus pneumoniae (commonly known as "strep") bacterial infection, which is usually in your lungs. It can also be caused by the flu virus, the common cold virus, or a fungal ...

If you get pneumonia, it means you have an infection in your lungs caused by bacteria, viruses, and other germs. Learning which type you have will help your doctor suggest a treatment. Doctors ...

Pneumonia is an infection of the lung tissue. When a person has pneumonia the air sacs in their lungs become filled with microorganisms, fluid and inflammatory cells and their lungs are not able to ...