title: [Protracted pneumonia].
abstract: The paper discusses the current characteristics of the etiology and clinical presentation of protracted pneumonia (PP), gives approaches to its differential diagnosis in detail, and considers risk factors for PP and approaches to treating patients with this pathology.
authors.affiliation: Pulmonology Research Institute, Ministry of Health of Russia, Moscow, Russia.
authors.forename: A G
authors.initials: AG
authors.lastname: Chuchalin
mesh_terms: D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D018410:Pneumonia, Bacterial / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D012307:Risk Factors