| profile of community- and hospital-acquired pneumonia cases admitted to basra general hospital, iraq. | over an 18-month period 485 throat swabs and sputum samples were taken from patients admitted to basra general hospital, iraq, with a clinical diagnosis of pneumonia. most patients (94.0%) had community-acquired pneumonia; 29 (6.0%) had hospital-acquired pneumonia. patients aged < or = 15 years and males had the highest incidence of pneumonia. cases were analysed by type of pneumonia: bronchial (76.3%) versus lobar (23.7%), and primary (81.0%) versus secondary (19.0%). the most common pathogen w ... | 2007 | 17684843 |