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Suggested Readings

American Thoracic Society, 2001 American Thoracic Society Guidelines for the management of adults with community-acquired pneumonia: Diagnosis, assessment of severity, and antimicrobial therapy and prevention Am J Respir Crit Care Med 163 2001 1730 1754 A comprehensive guide to diagnosis and initial therapy of patients with community-acquired pneumonia based on treatment setting, underlying diseases, and modifying factors, including risk for resistant organisms.
Bartlett et al., 2001 JG Bartlett SF Dowell LA Mandell Practice guidelines for the management of community-acquired pneumonia in adults Clin Infect Dis 31 2001 347 382 A comprehensive clinical review on relevant organisms causing community-acquired pneumonia.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/sars/ A regularly updated source of information about this newly recognized syndrome.
Halm and Teirstein, 2002 EA Halm AS Teirstein Management of community-acquired pneumonia N Engl J Med 347 2002 2039 2045 A brief practical review.
Holmes, 2003 KV Holmes SARS-associated coronavirus N Engl J Med 348 2003 1948 1951 Overview of the causative virus.
Whitney et al., 2000 CG Whitney MM Farley J Hadler Increasing prevalence of multidrug-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae in the United States N Engl J Med 343 2000 1917 1924 Documentation of this emerging problem, with an emphasis on the role for vaccination.