Clinical and etiological characteristics of severe community-acquired pneumonia: A two-center retrospective analysis from Xi’an and Jiaxing in China
Severe community-acquired pneumonia, which is most often caused by K. pneumoniae in the authors' region, regularly complicates chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and other chronic pulmonary diseases, requires broad-spectrum antibiotics and life-support, and is associated with a relatively high mortality rate.