title: Increased hospitalizations of elderly patients.
abstract: This issue of Emerging Infectious Diseases contains 2 articles that report increases in England in the incidence of hospitalizations for specific diseases, one on pneumonias and the other on community-acquired staphylococcal diseases. Both articles report increases in disease among those >65 years of age.
authors.affiliation: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA. mmeltzer@cdc.gov
authors.forename: Martin I
authors.initials: MI
authors.lastname: Meltzer
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D017714:Community-Acquired Infections / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000382:microbiology; D004739:England; D006760:Hospitalization / Q000706:statistics & numerical data* / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D011023:Pneumonia, Staphylococcal / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000382:microbiology; D013203:Staphylococcal Infections / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000382:microbiology