| bacteremic pneumococcal pneumonia in sweden: clinical course and outcome and comparison with non-bacteremic pneumococcal and mycoplasmal pneumonias. | 279 patients with 285 episodes of bacteremic pneumococcal pneumonia (pnb), treated at the 2 departments for infectious diseases in stockholm, sweden, were reviewed retrospectively. almost half of all episodes were caused by serotypes 3, 9 and 4 (in that order). the overall mortality rate was 7% and as low as 5% if patients with extrapulmonary complications were excluded. as in other studies male sex, alcoholism and absence of leukocytosis on admission to hospital were all associated with a highe ... | 1988 | 3399836 |