The disease is commonly misdiagnosed as community acquired pneumonia and sometimes as cancer.

There is some evidence of benefit for those with hypoxia and community acquired pneumonia.

Pleural empyema was found in 0.7% of 3675 patients needing hospitalization for a community acquired pneumonia in a recent Canadian single-center prospective study.

The unadjusted odds ratio of drug users who seroconverted to acquire bacterial pneumonia was 3.92 compared with drug users positive for HIV.

More cases of community acquired pneumonia occur during the winter months than at other times of the year.

Community acquired lobar pneumonia in patients with HIV infection and AIDS.

In the United Kingdom, amoxicillin is used as first-line therapy in the vast majority of patients acquiring pneumonia in the community, sometimes with added clarithromycin.

He acquired pneumonia and sepsis when he arrived at the emergency department.

The coating, a material known to have antimicrobial properties, reduces the risk that patients on ventilators will acquire pneumonia while in the hospital.

Empiric treatment of patients hospitalized with community acquired pneumonia should include both influenza antiviral agents and appropriate antibiotic therapy.