| etiology and therapy of community-acquired pneumonia. | the authors report the data of a retrospective study performed on 520 patients admitted to the institute of respiratory diseases, university of sassari, italy, for community acquired pneumonia (cap) from 1980 to 1995. the aim of this study was to investigate: the frequency of risk factors and their impact on severity of pneumonia; the frequency of pathogens and their correlation with the severity of the illness; antibiotic treatments. one or more risk factors were found in 86% of patients, while ... | 1997 | 9269610 |