Treatment of community-acquired pneumonia and hospital-acquired pneumonia, when to hospitalize a patient, methods of identifying low-risk CAP patients, switch and step-down therapy, approach to nonresloving pneumonia, management of parapneumonic effusions, empyema, and chronic bronchitis are discussed. The various antimicrobial agents are reviewed in deatil with suggested treatment regimens.

Definitions And Classification Of Respiratory Tract Infections -- Pulmonary Host Defenses -- Diagnosis Of Pneumonia -- Community-Acquired Pneumonia -- Antimicrobials Used To Treat Pneumonia -- Antimicrobials Used To Treat Pneumonia -- Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia -- Management Of Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia And Health Care-Associated Pneumonia -- Switch And Step-Down Therapy -- Natural History Of Pneumonia -- Possible Etiologies Of Nonresolving Pneumonia -- Approach To Nonresolving Pneumonia -- Parapneumonic Effusions And Empyema -- Bronchitis -- Abbreviations/Acronyms -- Index