title: [Pneumonia: The urgent problem of 21st century medicine].
abstract: The paper analyzes the systematic reviews and meta-analyses on the strategic issues of pneumonia, which have been published in the past 3 years. It discusses the prevalence and mortality rates of acquired pneumonia, hospital-acquired (nosocomial) pneumonia, healthcare-associated pneumonia, ventilator-associated pneumonia, and Mycoplasma pneumonia, and the specific features of their etiology, diagnosis, and treatment. A large number of investigations emphasize the relevance of this problem in current clinical practice.
authors.affiliation: Pulmonology Research Institute, Ministry of Health of Russia, Moscow, Russia.
authors.forename: A G
authors.initials: AG
authors.lastname: Chuchalin
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D011014:Pneumonia / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy