[Past and present of pneumonia].
A comparison is made between the most common types of pneumonias usually observed when Vincenzo Cuomo was active and those of the present day. Socially-transmitted pneumonias are contrasted with hospital-acquired pneumonias, mostly due to Gram negative bacteria, often multiresistant to antibiotics. Additional pneumonias are due to mycoplasmas, rickettsiae and Legionella and also to viruses, such as Cytomegalovirus, for example.
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Clinica Medica Generale, Dipartimento Medico Chirurgico di Internistica Clinica e Sperimentale F. Magrassi A. Lanzara, Seconda Università degli Studi di Napoli. paolo.altucci@unina2.it
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D006801:Humans; D011014:Pneumonia / Q000145:classification / Q000382:microbiology