title: [Management of community-acquired pneumonia in the physician's office].
abstract: The classical form of a community-acquired pneumonia is that caused by infection with pneumococcus, and differs clinically from atypical pneumonia in particular by fever-related differences. The diagnosis is based on the five cardinal symptoms: fever, cough, sputum production, pleuritic chest pain and a pulmonary infiltrate. Depending on whether there are further risk factors involved, a more or less comprehensive clinical and laboratory diagnostic work-up is needed. As a rule, oral antibiotic treatment with aminopenicillin, macrolides, fluorchinolones, ketolides or cephalosporins is applied, but decision-taking is also codetermined, for example, by whether an atypical pneumonia is suspected, or whether additional risk factors need to be taken into account.
authors.affiliation: Helios Klinikum Emil von Behring, Department Lungenklinik Heckeshorn. haloheck@zedat.fu-berlin.de
authors.forename: H M
authors.initials: HM
authors.lastname: Lode
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Erbes
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Linnhoff
mesh_terms: D000553:Ambulatory Care; D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D002637:Chest Pain / Q000209:etiology*; D017714:Community-Acquired Infections / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy; D003371:Cough / Q000209:etiology*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D018432:Drug Resistance, Multiple; D005334:Fever / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D010998:Pleurisy / Q000209:etiology*; D018410:Pneumonia, Bacterial / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy; D011019:Pneumonia, Mycoplasma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy; D011018:Pneumonia, Pneumococcal / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy; D013183:Sputum
chemical_list: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents