Community Acquired Pneumonia is not Free from Complications-A Tertiary Care Hospital Scenario

Bacterial Profile of Lower Respiratory Tract Infections in Adults and their Antibiotic Susceptibility Pattern with Detection of MRSA, ESBLs and MBLs

“…Age, gender and season can affect the occurrence of LRTIs (Salman et al, 2015). Pneumonia in adults occurs in 4% of Indians with male to female ratio of 1.56:1.14 (WHO, South East Asia region, 2012) and an annual incidence rate of (1.12-3.16 per 1000 people), which is increased as age advances (Sowmya et al, 2016). For diagnosis of LRTIs, expectorated sputum is the important sample received in the laboratory.…”